[GOAL] Re: Censorship? Seriously? (Re: Re: [sparc-oaforum] Re: Disruption vs. Protection)

[Stevan Harnad]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Rick Anderson <rick.anderson at utah.edu>wrote:

>    May I suggest, though, that such postings should not go to the GOAL,
> BOAI or SPARC lists? Please keep such brilliant ideas to the library lists.
>
>  And please don't reply that "it's just one factor in our cancelation
> equation." There's no need for the OA community to hear about librarians'
> struggles with their serials budgets when it's at the expense of OA.
>
>
Censorship? I'm not the moderator of this list. I am just expressing my
view, as you are.

But if you must keep posting here, could you perhaps address the points of
substance?

SH


>
>  It's hard to know how to respond to this. I guess I'll say simply that
> I'm dumbfounded at this blatant attempt to stifle any discussion of OA in
> anything other than cheerleading mode. If we can't talk about all the
> downstream implications (whether positive, negative, or mixed) of the
> various publishing models and options that are on the table, then it's hard
> to see how we're going to come up with sustainable, fair, and
> widely-beneficial solutions.
>
>  All of us have a stake in this conversation. I trust the moderators of
> these listservs will resist Stevan's call to silence those stakeholders who
> fail to support unreservedly and uncriticially the one model that he
> favors. A policy of prior restraint doesn't strike me as terribly
> consistent with the goals of OA.
>
>     ---
> Rick Anderson
> Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections
> Marriott Library, University of Utah
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>
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