RE: Correction (RE: Thatcher vs. Harnad)

>Except to the degree that it raises barriers to
publication for 
>authors -- which, of course, it does.

Except, of course, where there are no author fees (in the
case of 
over half of the journals listed in the DOAJ), or where the

authors fees can be waived (BMC, PLoS, etc.).

(Incidentally, I always find it intriguing that open access

publication fees are described as barriers to publication,
but we 
rarely hear the same being said of page charges, colour
figure 
charges, etc. for publication-based journals.)

David C Prosser PhD
Director
SPARC Europe
E-mail:  david.prosserbodley.ox.ac.uk

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[mailto:owner-liblicense-llists.yale.edu] On Behalf
Of Rick Anderson
Sent: 27 June 2007 05:10
To: Velterop, Jan, Springer UK; liblicense-llists.yale.edu
Subject: RE: Correction (RE: Thatcher vs. Harnad)

> Gold OA (OA publishing) doesn't lower anyone's
productivity, 
> and certainly not in this way.

Except to the degree that it raises barriers to publication
for 
authors -- which, of course, it does.  (Granted, it also
lowers 
barriers to access for readers, though it also imposes 
significant costs elsewhere which I think have been fairly 
thoroughly discussed here.)

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Rick Anderson
Dir. of Resource Acquisition
University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
rickandunr.edu