<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Each further day of thinking makes me feel closer and closer to this view. As an author, I just like when colleagues are happy with one of my texts online. As a reviewer I am fed up with unreadable junk.<div>Let us burn together, Jan.<div>Laurent</div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div><br><div><div>Le 10 déc. 2013 à 15:36, Jan Velterop <<a href="mailto:velterop@gmail.com">velterop@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Sally,<div><br></div><div>May I join you in the ranks of those who risk being pilloried or branded heretics? I think the solution is clear. We should get rid of pre-publication peer review (PPPR) and publish results in open repositories. PPPR is the one thing that keeps the whole publishing system standing, and expensive – in monetary terms, but also in terms of effort expended. It may have some benefits, but we pay very dearly for those. Where are the non-peer-reviewed articles that have caused damage? They may have to public understanding, of course (there's a lot of rubbish on the internet), but to scientific understanding? On the other hand, I can point to peer-reviewed articles that clearly have done damage, particularly to public understanding. Take the Wakefield MMR paper. Had it just been published without peer-review, the damage would likely have been no greater than that of any other drivel on the internet. Its peer-reviewed status, however, gave it far more credibility than it deserved. There are more examples.</div><div><br></div><div>My assertion: pre-publication peer review is dangerous since it is too easily used as an excuse to absolve scientists – and science journalists – from applying sufficient professional skepticism and critical appraisal.</div><div><br></div><div>Doing away with PPPR will do little damage – if any at all – to science, but removes most barriers to open access and saves the scientific community a hell of a lot of money.</div><div><br></div><div>The 'heavy lifting is that of cultural change' (crediting William Gunn for that phrase), so I won't hold my breath.</div><div><br></div><div>Jan Velterop</div><div><br><div><div>On 10 Dec 2013, at 13:36, Sally Morris <<a href="mailto:sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk">sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">At the risk
(nay, certainty) of being pilloried by OA conformists, let me say that –
whatever ithe failings of his article – I thank Jeffrey Beall for raising some
fundamental questions which are rarely, if ever, addressed.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">I would put them
under two general headings:</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">1)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</span>What is the objective of OA?</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">I originally
understood the objective to be to make scholarly research articles, in some
form, accessible to all those who needed to read them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Subsequent refinements such as
'immediately', 'published version' and 'free to reuse' may have
acquired <span class="179345612-10122013">quasi</span>-religious status, but
are surely secondary to this main objective.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">However, two
other, financial, objectives (linked to each other, but not to the above) have
gained increasing prominence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The
first is the alleged cost saving (or at least cost shifting).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The second - more malicious, and
originally (but no longer) denied by OA's main proponents - is the undermining
of publishers' businesses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>If this
were to work, we may be sure the effects would not be choosy about 'nice' or
'nasty' publishers.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">2)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</span>Why hasn't OA been widely adopted by now?</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">If – as we have
been repetitively assured over many years – OA is self-evidently the right thing
for scholars to do, why have so few of them done so voluntarily?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>As Jeffrey Beall points out, it seems
very curious that scholars have to be forced, by mandates, to adopt a model
which is supposedly preferable to the existing one.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Could it be that
the monotonous rantings of the few and the tiresome debates about the fine
detail are actually confusing scholars, and may even be putting them off?<span class="179345612-10122013"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Just asking
;-)</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">I don't disagree that the subscription model is not
going to be able to address the problems we face in making the growing volume of
research available to those who need it; but I'm not convinced that OA
(whether Green, Gold or any combination) will either. I think the
solution, if there is one, still eludes us.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="179345612-10122013"></span></span> </p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="179345612-10122013"></span><span class="179345612-10122013">M</span>erry
Christmas!</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Sally
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org">goal-bounces@eprints.org</a>
[<a href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org">mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>David
Prosser<br><b>Sent:</b> 09 December 2013 22:10<br><b>To:</b> Global Open Access
List (Successor of AmSci)<br><b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly
Compromises Credibility ofBeall's List<br></font><br></div>
<div></div>'Lackeys'? This is going beyond parody.
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<div>David</div>
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<div>On 9 Dec 2013, at 21:45, Beall, Jeffrey wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Consolas; COLOR: rgb(68,84,106)">Wouter,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Consolas; COLOR: rgb(68,84,106)"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Consolas; COLOR: rgb(68,84,106)">Hello,
yes, I wrote the article, I stand by it, and I take responsibility for
it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Consolas; COLOR: rgb(68,84,106)"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Consolas; COLOR: rgb(68,84,106)">I would
ask Prof. Harnad to clarify one thing in his email below, namely this
statement,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">"OA is all an anti-capitlist plot."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Consolas; COLOR: rgb(68,84,106)">This
statement's appearance in quotation marks makes it look like I wrote it in the
article. The fact is that this statement does not appear in the article, and I
have never written such a statement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Consolas; COLOR: rgb(68,84,106)"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Consolas; COLOR: rgb(68,84,106)">Prof.
Harnad and his lackeys are responding just as my article
predicts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Consolas; COLOR: rgb(68,84,106)"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Consolas; COLOR: rgb(68,84,106)">Jeffrey
Beall<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri, sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; COLOR: blue" href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org">goal-bounces@eprints.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[<a href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org">mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Gerritsma,
Wouter<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday,
December 09, 2013 2:14 PM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Global Open Access List (Successor of
AmSci)<br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[GOAL]
Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's
List<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125)">Dear
all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125)"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125)">Has
this article really been written by Jeffrey Beall?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125)">He
has been victim of a smear campaign before!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125)"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125)">I
don’t see he has claimed this article on his blog<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><a style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; COLOR: blue" href="http://scholarlyoa.com/">http://scholarlyoa.com/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125)">or
his tweet stream @Jeffrey_Beall (which actually functions as his RSS
feed).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125)"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125)">I
really like to hear from the man himself on his own
turf.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125)"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125)">Wouter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125)"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125)"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125)"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; COLOR: blue" href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org">goal-bounces@eprints.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[<a style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; COLOR: blue" href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org">mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Stevan
Harnad<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>maandag 9
december 2013 16:04<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Global Open Access List (Successor of
AmSci)<br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[GOAL]
Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's
List<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Beall, Jeffrey (2013)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; COLOR: blue" href="http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/525/514">The
Open-Access Movement is Not Really about Open Access</a>. TripleC
Communication, Capitalism & Critique Journal. 11(2): 589-597<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; COLOR: blue" href="http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/525/514">http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/525/514</a><o:p></o:p></span></div></div>
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Beall is doing something useful with his naming and shaming of junk OA
journals, but I now realize that he is driven by some sort of fanciful
conspiracy theory! "OA is all an anti-capitlist plot." (Even on a quick skim
it is evident that Jeff's article is rife with half-truths, errors and
downright nonsense. Pity. It will diminish the credibility of his valid
exposés, but maybe this is a good thing, if the judgment and motivation behind
Beall's list is as kooky as this article! But alas it will now also give the
genuine "predatory" junk-journals some specious arguments for discrediting
Jeff's work altogether. Of course it will also give the publishing lobby some
good sound-bites, but they use them at their peril, because of all the other
nonsense in which they are nested!) <o:p></o:p></span></div></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">JB:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">"<b>ABSTRACT</b>: While the open-access (OA) movement purports to
be about making scholarly content open-access, its true motives are much
different. The OA movement is an anti-corporatist movement that wants to
deny the freedom of the press to companies it disagrees with. The movement
is also actively imposing onerous mandates on researchers, mandates that
restrict individual freedom. To boost the open-access movement, its leaders
sacrifice the academic futures of young scholars and those from developing
countries, pressuring them to publish in lower-quality open-access journals.
The open-access movement has fostered the creation of numerous
predatory publishers and standalone journals, increasing the amount of
research misconduct in scholarly publications and the amount of
pseudo-science that is published as if it were authentic
science."</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">JB: </span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">"[F]rom their
high-salaried comfortable positions…OA advocates... demand that for-profit,
scholarly journal publishers not be involved in scholarly publishing and
devise ways (such as green open-access) to defeat and eliminate
them...</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">JB: </span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">"OA advocates use
specious arguments to lobby for mandates, focusing only on the supposed
economic benefits of open access and ignoring the value additions provided
by professional publishers. The arguments imply that publishers are not
really needed; all researchers need to do is upload their work, an action
that constitutes publishing, and that this act results in a product that is
somehow similar to the products that professional publishers produce….
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">JB: </span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">"The open-access
movement isn't really about open access. Instead, it is about collectivizing
production and denying the freedom of the press from those who prefer the
subscription model of scholarly publishing. It is an anti-corporatist,
oppressive and negative movement, one that uses young researchers and
researchers from developing countries as pawns to artificially force the
make-believe gold and green open-access models to work. The movement relies
on unnatural mandates that take free choice away from individual
researchers, mandates set and enforced by an onerous cadre of Soros-funded
European autocrats...</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">JB:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">"The open-access movement is a failed social movement and a false
messiah, but its promoters refuse to admit this. The emergence of numerous
predatory publishers – a product of the open-access movement – has poisoned
scholarly communication, fostering research misconduct and the publishing of
pseudo-science, but OA advocates refuse to recognize the growing problem. By
instituting a policy of exchanging funds between researchers and publishers,
the movement has fostered corruption on a grand scale. Instead of arguing
for openaccess, we must determine and settle on the best model for the
distribution of scholarly research, and it's clear that neither green nor
gold open-access is that model...</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div></blockquote>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">JB:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">"Open access advocates think they know better than everyone else
and want to impose their policies on others. Thus, the open access movement
has the serious side-effect of taking away other's freedom from them. We
observe this tendency in institutional mandates. Harnad (2013) goes so
far as to propose [an]…Orwellian system of mandates… documented [in a] table
of mandate strength, with the most restrictive pegged at level 12, with the
designation "immediate deposit + performance evaluation (no waiver option)".
This Orwellian system of mandates is documented in Table 1...
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that needs mandates to work is doomed to fail. A social movement that uses
mandates is abusive and tantamount to academic slavery. Researchers need
more freedom in their decisions not less. How can we expect and demand
academic freedom from our universities when we impose oppressive mandates
upon ourselves?..."</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div></blockquote>
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