Stevan:Remember, I am an OA supporter, though I am getting discouraged about the
slow progress. You raise good points, but I think you are the one conflating
issues. I will try to keep them separate.
1. Journal pricing.
Independent of OA, it is important to take the cost of scholarly publishing
Stevan Harnad responded to most of Eric van der Velde's doubts
(http://bit.ly/v3OAqq) straightforwardly â and fairly, I think. To Eric's
question whether OA publishing amounts to vanity publishing, he responds with a
few references to his own papers, that perhaps don't quite answer the
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Eric F. Van de Velde
eric.f.vandeve...@gmail.com wrote:
Stevan: Remember, I am an OA supporter,
Eric, I know (and an old friend and comrade-at-arms!)...
though I am getting discouraged about the slow progress.
Me too (though I've been discouraged about that
I agree with Jan Velterop that there are low-quality and junk non-OA
journals, just as there are low-quality and junk OA journals (though I
do think there is evidence that the pay-to-publish OA model has
lowered the cost, risk and barriers to start-up low-quality and junk
journals).
I referred to
On 2011-10-28, at 5:47 PM, Eric F. Van de Velde wrote:
My most recent blog may be of interest to this list. It starts as follows,
the rest is available at
http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com/2011/10/open-access-doubts.html
There are very simple answers to each of Eric's doubts, which arise
