I am adding take on Beall's attack on OA in my latest blog post, which you can find here: http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com/2013/12/bealls-rant.html
Some excerpts: But is it really too much to ask to avoid the lowest level of political debate, politics by name-calling? [...] Most of us prefer that these decisions are made by the collective and distributed wisdom of free-market mechanisms. Unfortunately, the current scholarly-communication marketplace is far from a free market. [...] If Beall believes in the free market, he should support competition from new methods of dissemination, alternative assessment techniques, and new journal business models. --Eric. http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com Twitter: @evdvelde E-mail: [email protected]
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