> But if "compulsion" is indeed the right word
for mandating
> self-archiving, I wonder whether Sally was ever curious
about
> why publication itself had to be mandated by
researchers'
> institutions and funders ("publish or
perish"), despite its
> substantial benefits to researchers?
"Compulsion" is probably not the right word for
the expectation
that a professor do the job he is being paid for: producing
and
disseminating research. It most certainly is the right word
for
a legal requirement that the work be disseminated in one
particular way.
We can argue about whether legally-mandated OA is a good
thing or
a bad thing, but there is no intellectually serious way to
argue
that legal mandates don't constitute compulsion.
---
Rick Anderson
Dir. of Resource Acquisition
University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
rickand unr.edu
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