Richard, I would be grateful if you could post the following message verbatim to the GOAL list - it is likely to be my last.
In a recent post to the GOAL list ( http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/2013-December/002585.html ) Stevan Harnad put forward 10 reasons why immediate non-BOAI access is better than BOAI access. I felt that these needed to be challenged and replied to two points: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/2013-December/002587.html and http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/2013-December/002589.html You then mailed me and asked me not to post any more such messages on the GOAL list. I note however that you have allowed SH to continue arguing his case. http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/2013-December/002593.html My messages challenged the postings, not the person. I had assumed that the GOAL list would allow a balanced debate and am sad to find it will not allow one. It is a pity that there is no forum or body which allows constructive debate on Open Access - and that is one reason why I and colleagues have set up https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-access. Peter -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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