[GOAL] Re: Times Literary Supplement on Open Access

[Dana Roth]

In fairness to Jonathan Bate ... his concern about a future loss of "nurturing, marketing, and production values', currently provided by book publishers, is not unreasonable.

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From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 5:05 AM
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
Subject: [GOAL] Times Literary Supplement on Open Access

A very silly piece in TLS<http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1360491.ece> by Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate in which -- despite noting that until at least 2020 HEFCE has not mandated OA for books, only for journal articles -- he decries shrilly the doom and gloom that the HEFCE mandate portends for book-based humanity scholarship. The gratuitous cavilling is, as usual, cloaked in shrill alarums about academic freedom infringement...
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