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

[Rick Anderson]

I should publicly acknowledge that I misread this sentence from Stevan's message:

> 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.

I should not have characterized it as a call to the moderators to exclude such contributions from the list. While I believe that it's completely inappropriate for Stevan to discourage open and objective discussion of these issues by librarians, his discouragement did not amount to calling on the list moderators to censor it, and I should have read more carefully before responding as if it did. My apologies.

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Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections
Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Cell: (801) 721-1687
rick.anderson at utah.edu




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.

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.

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Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections
Marriott Library, University of Utah
Desk: (801) 587-9989
Cell: (801) 721-1687
rick.anderson at utah.edu<mailto:rick.anderson at utah.edu>

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