<div dir="ltr"><div>I am adding take on Beall's attack on OA in my latest blog post, which you can find here:</div><div><a href="http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com/2013/12/bealls-rant.html">http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com/2013/12/bealls-rant.html</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Some excerpts:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.600000381469727px;line-height:14.399999618530273px">But is it really too much to ask to avoid the lowest level of political debate, politics by name-calling?</span><br>
</div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.600000381469727px;line-height:14.399999618530273px">[...]</span></div><div>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Most of us prefer that these decisions
are made by the collective and distributed wisdom of free-market
mechanisms.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Unfortunately, the current
scholarly-communication marketplace is far from a free market.</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in">[...]</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in">If Beall believes in the free market, he should support competition from new methods of dissemination, alternative assessment techniques, and new journal business models.<br>
</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in">--Eric.</p></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com</a><br><div>Twitter: @evdvelde</div><div>
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