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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dear Jeffrey,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’m sorry but this comparison is simply false.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">To ban is to officially proscribe something (<a href="http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/ban">http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/ban</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Guedon’s call is to boycott (<a href="http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/boycott">http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/boycott</a>) this journal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Libraries, of course, have no power to “ban” journals. They do, however, have the power to decide whether or not to subscribe to them.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Urging people not to purchase something is hence not the same as prohibition, nor even to call for it. It is rather a use of free-speech to appeal to others to boycott a product on ethical grounds (which I, btw,
wholeheartedly echo).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">With best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Tony Ross-Hellauer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DE">Dr. Tony Ross-Hellauer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DE"><a href="https://www.openaire.eu/"><span style="color:blue">OpenAIRE</span></a> Scientific Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DE">University of Göttingen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Email:
<a href="mailto:ross-hellauer@sub.uni-goettingen.de"><span style="color:blue">ross-hellauer@sub.uni-goettingen.de</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Tel: +49 551 39-33181</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Von:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> goal-bounces@eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org]
<b>Im Auftrag von </b>Beall, Jeffrey<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Friday, November 13, 2015 12:55 PM<br>
<b>An:</b> Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> [GOAL] Re: Inside Higher Ed: All six editors and all 31 editorial board members of Lingua resign over Elsevier<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">I think that Guedon's advice to "Remove access to
<i>Lingua</i> going forward" is the moral equivalent of a book banning. </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">There's no moral difference between saying "Remove access to
<i>Lingua</i>" and saying "Remove the book <i>Heather Has Two Mommies</i>."</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">I understand that all book banners (and journal banners) think they are doing the right thing and helping society.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">I think it is shameful for anyone, especially a librarian, to call for the removal of content from a library.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Guedon is the modern-day equivalent of a book banner. He is pressuring libraries to ban serials, the same, morally, as banning books.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Jeffrey Beall</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">University of Colorado Denver</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <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>Richard Poynder<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 12, 2015 11:59 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Global Open Access List' <<a href="mailto:goal@eprints.org">goal@eprints.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] Inside Higher Ed: All six editors and all 31 editorial board members of Lingua resign over Elsevier<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>I am posting this message on behalf of Jean-Claude Guédon:</b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The article below (thanks to Colin Steele) is an example of a courageous move that must be supported by the libraries.<br>
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With regard to the <i>Lingua</i> (now <i>Glossa</i>) editorial board, libraries could, for example,<br>
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1. Remove access to<i> Lingua</i> going forward (keep access to archive up to December 31st, 2015) if caught in a Big Deal; remove
<i>Lingua</i> from subscriptions, starting in 2016, if not in a Big Deal<br>
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2. Support <i>Glossa</i> (the new journal) financially,<br>
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3. Promote <i>Glossa</i> widely. ERIH is already classifying the new journal at the level of its current status by arguing that the quality of a journal is linked to the editors and editorial board, and not to the publisher.<br>
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Researchers in linguistics, of course, should boycott Elsevier's <i>Lingua</i> from now on.<br>
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This event also demonstrates the importance for Learned and scientific societies not to sell the title of their journals to publishers. So long as we foolishly evaluate research according to the place where it is published (i.e. a journal title), publishers
will hold a strong trump card.<br>
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Finally, this event displays the incredible behaviour of the multinational, commercial, publishers with particular clarity. These are not the friends of the scientific communication system we need.<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">>> <span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Extract from <i>Inside Higher Ed</i> article:<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“All six editors and all 31 editorial board members of <i>Lingua</i>, one of the top journals in linguistics, last week resigned to protest Elsevier's policies on pricing and its refusal to convert the journal to an open-access publication
that would be free online. As soon as January, when the departing editors' noncompete contracts expire, they plan to start a new open-access journal to be called
<i>Glossa</i>.”<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The article can be read in full here: <span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/02/editors-and-editorial-board-quit-top-linguistics-journal-protest-subscription-fees">https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/02/editors-and-editorial-board-quit-top-linguistics-journal-protest-subscription-fees</a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For a list of some of the other coverage of this issue see here:
<a href="http://kaivonfintel.org/2015/11/05/lingua-roundup/">http://kaivonfintel.org/2015/11/05/lingua-roundup/</a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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