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Open Access?

Duncan — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:42:39 -0400

It seems we're not quite there yet, even with the Open Access journals. See This post from Peter Murray-Rust on "Open" Access.

Unintentional hilarity

Neil — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:36:24 -0400

I've had that poster above my desk for years (in fact I think you alerted me to it about 6 or 7 years ago).

Unintentional hilarity is right. The swift, incisive comment by the OA community has labelled this group as clowns from day one. They're doomed to ridicule and disdain until they take down their site.

Thank God

nuin — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:09:43 -0400

It is "only" in America so far.

If you publish in OA journals, you're publishing communism!

Greg — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:00:36 -0400

[img_assist|nid=2288|title=Open Source Communism|desc=Open Source Communism|link=node|align=right|width=75|height=100]I don't participate much in the OA Debate, largely because I see the outcome as a foregone conclusion. What we are seeing now is the reaction of publishers with an established business model (read license to print money) being threatened by change. Given that OA will not be going away, in my opinion what publishers should be doing is thinking creatively and developing new business models for scientific publishing. Update: It gets better according to Cognitive Daily, apparently the the images used on the PRISM website were in violation of copyright law. Blog around the clock has the definitive roundup post for more reactions.