dear all, I agree with Stephan Harnad that there is the danger of publishers trying to bend the rules for open access to their wishes and with the aid of a big political lobby they will certainly try to do so. Nevertheless I think that the letter of mr Sander Dekker is mis interpreted in some crucial places. When he talks about grasping the opportunity where publishers are due to renew their bundled subscriptions in 2014 I interpret this as the wish to stop this practice as off 2014 and free the subscription money from libraries for financing journal mediated open access. This is also the interpretation that Jos Engelen director of the Dutch organization for scientific research gives in the same article in the volkskrant. And what would be wrong with all publishers adopting open access ,financing their businesses wit money that is freed because of canceled subscriptions? I think we should fight the risk of publishers taking open access as a means to increase their incomes by adamantly refusing to accept any embargoes, not for journals and not for repositories. That is the big mistake that was made ,allowing these embargo periods in the first place Tom Olijhoek
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