On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Bjoern Brembs <b.bre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, November 15, 2013, 1:09:13 AM, you wrote: > > > The political approach may be necessary to get OA > > enacted, but we need to implement OA in such a way that it > > is immune from political influence. In my book, that seems > > to be a perfect role for libraries. > > This is a serious problem with mandates: they are liable to political > influence - and billions in $$$ pay for plenty of political influence, way > more than we can ever dream of having. > > I thus support Eric's motion: we need to move everything in-house, away > from any political influence. Libraries are the natural place for that. > I patiently await Bjoern's or Eric's practical explanation of how libraries are going to get researchers to provide OA. (Till I hear, I'm sticking to Green OA mandates. And malign political influence can be countered by benign. The publishing lobby has more money. But there are far more of us researchers; and whereas our governments may be susceptible to publisher lobbying, our funders are less so, and our institutions still less so: and it's the latter two that do the mandating…) Stevan Harnad
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