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The following commentary on Mike Carroll's posting on Taylor Francis's press
release is intended neither as an endorsement nor as a critique of TF's (or any
publisher's) gold OA offerings. It is just an attempt to clarify an important
point about about OA needs from the standpoint of researchers,
The rebuttal is correct in principle, but what we are about to see in the
next 20 years is a sea change in access. It seems self-evident that advocacy
by academics towards changing their own system is a different creature than
anything else we strive for. It is a reflexive process, and we would
My friend and comrade-at-arms, the Archivangelist of the Antipodes, Arthur Sale,
finds that Gold OA publishing is growing too slowly. (He's right.)
Arthur also finds that both Green OA self-archiving, and Green OA self-archiving
mandates (ID/OA) are growing too slowly. (He's right.)
Arthur
