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I agree with Stevan Harnad's message where the following statement was included:<BR>
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<I>(3) if funders and institutions simply "<A HREF="https://www.google.ca/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=GJhyVJa4I8qC8QfFsIHIDg&gws_rd=ssl#q=host:openaccess.eprints.org+(%22leave+it+to+us%22+OR+trojan+OR+CHORUS+OR+%22Let+us%22)">leave it to us</A>" [publishers] to manage a "gradual transition" (certainly not a "flip." which publishers know full well would be highly unstable and impermanent, and would quickly transform into a "flop" because of institutional, funder and national defections)</I><BR>
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Imagine, back in 1475 or so, a bunch of scriptoria saying: leave this move to print to us... And then imagine the result!<BR>
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"Kind regards"<BR>
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jcg<BR>
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Jean-Claude Guédon
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Université de Montréal
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Le mercredi 30 décembre 2015 à 08:34 -0500, Stevan Harnad a écrit :<BR>
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(3) if funders and institutions simply "<A HREF="https://www.google.ca/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=GJhyVJa4I8qC8QfFsIHIDg&gws_rd=ssl#q=host:openaccess.eprints.org+(%22leave+it+to+us%22+OR+trojan+OR+CHORUS+OR+%22Let+us%22)">leave it to us</A>" [publishers] to manage a "gradual transition" (certainly not a "flip." which publishers know full well would be highly unstable and impermanent, and would quickly transform into a "flop" because of institutional, funder and national defections)
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