In fairness to Jonathan Bate ... his concern about a future loss of "nurturing, marketing, and production values', currently provided by book publishers, is not unreasonable.
Dana L. Roth Caltech Library 1-32 1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125 626-395-6423 fax 626-792-7540 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://library.caltech.edu/collections/chemistry.htm From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 5:05 AM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Times Literary Supplement on Open Access A very silly piece in TLS<http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1360491.ece> by Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate in which -- despite noting that until at least 2020 HEFCE has not mandated OA for books, only for journal articles -- he decries shrilly the doom and gloom that the HEFCE mandate portends for book-based humanity scholarship. The gratuitous cavilling is, as usual, cloaked in shrill alarums about academic freedom infringement...
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