From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 18:06:54 -0600

There won't be any reason to make excuses if the large commercial
publishers manage to end up making as much money from Gold OA as they
have from TA publishing.

Sandy Thatcher


> From: Ken Masters <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 08:21:43 +0400
>
> Hi All
>
> As the Gregorian calendar prepares to flip over to 2014, I'd like to
> get the opinions of the people on this list regarding open access in
> the next decade.
>
> In 10 years, or less, when online open access academic journal
> articles vastly outnumber toll-access academic journal articles, what
> do you think will be the excuses of those who fought so strongly
> against it?
>
> I'm sure there will be many who will say things like "We always knew
> it was the way of the future; we were simply concerned about quality
> ," but I know that others will be far more creative than that.
>
> So, it would be interesting to gather some predicted excuses now, and
> see how many of them are used in the next decades.
>
> On the other hand, if you think this prediction about open cccess is
> baloney, feel free to rip into it.
>
> Regards
>
> Ken
>
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> Dr. Ken Masters
> Asst. Professor: Medical Informatics
> Medical Education Unit
> College of Medicine & Health Sciences
> Sultan Qaboos University
> Sultanate of Oman
> E-i-C: The Internet Journal of Medical Education
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