<div dir="ltr">This response to Turow's op-ed in the NY Times may be of interest to the list.<div><br></div><div>Turow's piece contained an outrageous remark about the unprofitability of scholarly communication. Most of it was devoted to business developments that, according to Turow, harm authors.<div>
<br></div><div>I respond to most of his points, and I generalize the concept of open access to public libraries and general literature.</div><div><br></div><div>You can find my post here:</div><div><a href="http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com/2013/05/turow-vs-everyone.html">http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com/2013/05/turow-vs-everyone.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>You may also be interested in a previous post, which has nothing to do with OA (so I did not announce it here). It;s about a small incident from long ago showing how competitive sports corrupts American higher ed:</div>
<div><br></div><div style>Calculus for Jocks</div><div><a href="http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com/2013/05/calculus-for-jocks.html">http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com/2013/05/calculus-for-jocks.html</a><br><div><br></div>
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