[GOAL] 1. Alert: Some coordinated action from the Big Publishing Lobby in the UK & Netherlands (Stevan Harnad)

[Tom Olijhoek]

dear all,

I agree with Stephan Harnad that there is the danger of publishers trying
to bend the rules for open access to their wishes and with the aid of a big
political lobby they will certainly try to do so.
Nevertheless I think that the letter of mr Sander Dekker is mis interpreted
in some crucial places. When he talks about grasping the opportunity where
publishers are due to renew their bundled subscriptions in 2014 I interpret
this as the wish to stop this practice as off 2014 and free the
subscription money from libraries for financing journal mediated open
access. This is also the interpretation that Jos Engelen director of the
Dutch organization for scientific research gives in the same article in the
volkskrant.
And what would be wrong with all publishers adopting open access ,financing
their businesses wit money that is freed because of canceled subscriptions?
I think we should fight the risk of publishers taking open access as a
means to increase their incomes by adamantly refusing to accept any
embargoes, not for journals and not for repositories. That is the big
mistake that was made ,allowing these embargo periods in the first place
Tom Olijhoek


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