[GOAL] Re: The open access movement slips into closed mode

[Jean-Claude Guédon]

I agree with Stevan Harnad's message where the following statement was
included:

(3) if funders and institutions simply "leave it to us" [publishers] to
manage a "gradual transition" (certainly not a "flip." which publishers
know full well would be highly unstable and impermanent, and would
quickly transform into a "flop" because of institutional, funder and
national defections)

Imagine, back in 1475 or so, a bunch of scriptoria saying: leave this
move to print to us... And then imagine the result!

:-)

"Kind regards"

jcg

Jean-Claude Guédon 

Professeur titulaire
Littérature comparée
Université de Montréal




Le mercredi 30 décembre 2015 à 08:34 -0500, Stevan Harnad a écrit :

> (3) if funders and institutions simply "leave it to us" [publishers]
> to manage a "gradual transition" (certainly not a "flip." which
> publishers know full well would be highly unstable and impermanent,
> and would quickly transform into a "flop" because of institutional,
> funder and national defections)

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