[GOAL] OA Ideology vs. OA Pragmatics

[Stevan Harnad]

On 2012-04-29, at 3:52 AM, Jan Velterop wrote:

> By all means where there are opportunities to promote mandates
> let us do that, but not at the expense of making the moral and
> societal responsibility case for OA. 

By all means where there are opportunities to make  the moral and 
societal responsibility case for OA let us do that, but not at the expense 
of promoting mandates.

Researchers themselves are the only ones who can provide
OA, and their institutions and funders (not "dinner parties or the pub")
are the only ones can mandate that they do it -- not for ideological
reasons, but out of practical self-interest.

And, to repeat: OA means public access too.

Stevan Harnad