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http://news.ft.com/cms/s/98f16604-31f4-11d9-97c0-0e2511c8.html
Is it not obvious even to readers of this list that this is all just
drubbing Peter to pay Paul? The only major recommendation of the UK Select
Committee was to mandate OA self-archiving. Yet no one (MPs, press
Is it not obvious even to readers of this list that this is all just
drubbing Peter to pay Paul? The only major recommendation of the UK Select
Committee was to mandate OA self-archiving. Yet no one (MPs, press,
publishers or librarians) can stop going on and on about OA publishing,
which
I was not surprised by the UK Government's response. I was always sceptical
about the Select C'tee's report's likely impact. Governments have a long
and dishonourable history of ignoring Select Committees! Looking at it from
a Government point of view, why on earth should it get interested in a
Charles Oppenheim wrote:
[W]hat annoys me is that the Government conflates OA journals with OA
repositories and I do think it needs educating on that matter. It would
have been so much better if the Gov't had encouraged Universities and
the like to set repositories up and encouraged funding
See also:
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higherfeedback/story/0,11056,1364556,00.html
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5705/2187b
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/329/7475/1122-a#85624
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, David Goodman wrote:
Charles Oppenheim wrote:
[W]hat annoys
