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What a rubbish argument! This can only be true of a small country
with a disproportionally massive commercial scholarly publishing
sector (that isn't avoiding taxes via some small island tax haven).
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The Netherlands? Perhaps Britain? That's it.<br>
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Jan Velterop<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 30/12/2015 12:25, Richard Poynder
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:001301d142fd$3cb9be60$b62d3b20$@gmail.com"
type="cite"><span style="color:#1F497D">As Keith Jeffery puts it,
“We all know why the BOAI principles have been progressively
de-railed. One explanation given to me at an appropriate
political level was that the tax-take from commercial publishers
was greater than the cost of research libraries.” <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://bit.ly/1OslVFW"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bit.ly/1OslVFW">http://bit.ly/1OslVFW</a></a>.</span></blockquote>
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