Take that for a yes.

> I said I would give you all the money you need.  Now
money is
> taken care
> of.  Is OA a good idea?

My $.02 on this question:

Sure, it's a great idea -- as long as the unlimited funding
for OA isn't
being siphoned away from something that's an even better
idea than OA.
In the real world, any funding model will involve
opportunity costs that
need to be taken into consideration.  So given a choice
between, say,
universal OA and universal health care, the better choice is
obviously
not OA.  (The vast majority of people would clearly benefit
much more
from universal access to doctors than from universal access
to medical
journal articles.)


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Rick Anderson
Dir. of Resource Acquisition
University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
(775) 784-6500 x273
rickandunr.edu