Dear Colleagues, Thank you for your appreciation that earlier today I attempted to provide my argument to discuss Dr. Stevan Harnad "Draft letter for institutions to sign to implement Berlin declaration" dated 25 December 2003.
I did not intend to "going on and on about BiomedCentral" as Dr. Harnad justified (see below). I think that what might cause such thinking is a moderation-born erratic "Prior Amsci Thread" stamp: "Re: BioMed Central and new publishing models". Please be sure that what I discuss in both letters is the statement in Item 8 of Dr. Harnad draft letter that "New "open-access" journals can recover their costs by charging the author-institution for each outgoing article they publish". I argue that "Open access" does not necessarily mean "charging the author or institution", and explain why. Not moderated [by Amsci] version of both letters are available at ARL SOAF archive: 1st letter: <https://arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/380.html> 2nd letter: <https://arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/383.html> (2nd letter is a response on <https://arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/382.html> Dr.Harnad reply on my 1st letter) Sincerely, Alexei Koudinov, MD, PhD Competing interest declaration: I do not have any competing financial interest. I am a founding, managing and publishing editor of the <http://neurobiologyoflipids.org/>Neurobiology of Lipids, an unpaid position. Neurobiology of Lipids (ISSN 1683-5506) has no affiliation with any professional association, publisher, industry member, commercial enterprise, public, educational or government organization. The viewpoint presented in the cited above letters is my personal view. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- At 07:11 PM 12/26/2003 +0000, Stevan Harnad wrote: > Alexei Koudinov is tilting at the wrong target: The target is > open-access provision for the 2,500,000 yearly articles in the world's > 24,000 journals. We will not reach that target faster if we spend our > time quarreling with the few journals (<1000) that provide open access > already! 23,000 journals-worth of articles -- 2,400,000 -- still await > open-access. Why is Alexei going on and on about BiomedCentral?
