In the unlikely event that the U.S. decides to change its copyright laws to block open access, a "Plan B" for OA that seems a good fit for the US context is expanding the Harvard-style mandate approach.
As Stevan Harnad has pointed out, OA is unstoppable; once researchers fully grasp its benefits, they will take matters into their own hands, and make it happen. The sheer absurdity of this approach can only help! Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author alone, and does not represent the opinion or policy of BC Electronic Library Network or Simon Fraser University Library. Heather Morrison, MLIS The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com
