<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Richard,<br></div>I would be grateful if you could post the following message verbatim to the GOAL list - it is likely to be my last.<br><br></div>In a recent post to the GOAL list (<a href="http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/2013-December/002585.html">http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/2013-December/002585.html</a> ) Stevan Harnad put forward 10 reasons why immediate non-BOAI access is better than BOAI access. I felt that these needed to be challenged and replied to two points:<br>
<br><a href="http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/2013-December/002587.html">http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/2013-December/002587.html</a><br></div><br>and<br><br><a href="http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/2013-December/002589.html">http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/2013-December/002589.html</a><br>
<br></div>You then mailed me and asked me not to post any more such messages on the GOAL list. I note however that you have allowed SH to continue arguing his case.<br><br><a href="http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/2013-December/002593.html">http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/2013-December/002593.html</a><br>
<br></div>My messages challenged the postings, not the person. I had assumed that the GOAL list would allow a balanced debate and am sad to find it will not allow one.<br><br></div>It is a pity that there is no forum or body which allows constructive debate on Open Access - and that is one reason why I and colleagues have set up <a href="https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-access">https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-access</a>. <br clear="all">
<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br></div><div>Peter<br><br><br><br></div><div>-- <br>Peter Murray-Rust<br>Reader in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry<br>University of Cambridge<br>CB2 1EW, UK<br>
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