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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">One would hope that knowledgeable contributors would please refrain from criticizing ‘publishers’ as a group ... as though there were no differences in their
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The stark contrast between the policies of the American Physical Society, for example, and many commercial publishers is so transparently obvious that I need
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> goal-bounces@eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Peter Murray-Rust<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, March 03, 2012 12:52 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] Re: Scholarly Publishing: Where is Plan B?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Stevan Harnad <<a href="mailto:amsciforum@gmail.com">amsciforum@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Richard Poynder<br>
<<a href="mailto:ricky@richardpoynder.co.uk">ricky@richardpoynder.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">> To the intense joy of OA advocates, Elsevier announced Monday that it has<br>
> withdrawn its support for the controversial US Research Works Act.<o:p></o:p></p>
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I find no joy in progressing from the presently unacceptable position to a worse one and then back to square one.<br>
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The only "progress" is to discover even more clearly that publishers are institutionally anti-academic and anti-reader so that the few of us who fight for basic rights have clearer evidence. I take no joy in the total silence of organised academia - not a squeak
of comment and support from any major university or library leader.<br>
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