From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 21:22:08 -0400

Richard,

I would like to thank you and the many people who wrote me offline for
what turned out to be a simple tech support issue--and not a
conspiracy of the nomenklatura of the open access movement.

And let me take this occasion to thank you as well for your very
informative blog.

Joe Esposito

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 6:17 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Richard Poynder <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 07:18:26 +0100
>
> Hi Joe,
>
> And there you had me thinking that the banks had frozen my assets
> without telling me.
>
> I think what you are referring to is the fact that if you highlight
> and copy text from the blog into, say, an email message the blog’s
> background colour is extracted along with the words, which tends to
> hide the text.
>
> There are several quick fixes to this:
>
> 1.       Change the background colour of the extracted text in your
> email message.
>
> 2.       Copy the text into a word processor like Word and have it
> paste the text only.
>
> 3.       In this case, you could also access the pdf version of the
> Q&A and cut and paste the text that way.
>
> Ideally this would not happen, but the person who designed my blog is
> no longer with us, and no one has raised the issue with me before.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Richard
>
>
> On 10 May 2017 at 03:48, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 21:11:23 -0400
> >
> > Richard,
> >
> > Can you explain why your blog is set up so that one cannot highlight
> > and copy a passage? Is that deliberate? I wanted to extract a doozy of
> > a sentence you attribute to Haider on neoliberalism and its
> > discontents, but it appears that your blog is under embargo by some
> > demon or perhaps the banks or the corporatocracy or left-handed relief
> > pitchers.
> >
> > Joe Esposito
> >
> > On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 8:17 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Richard Poynder <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 14:51:36 +0100
> > >
> > > Many of us join causes and movements at different times in our lives,
> > > if only because we like to feel part of something bigger than
> > > ourselves, and because most of us have a healthy desire to improve the
> > > world. Unfortunately, movements often fail to achieve their
> > > objectives, or their objectives are significantly watered down – or
> > > lost sight of – along the way. Sometimes they fail completely.
> > >
> > > When their movement hits a roadblock, advocates will respond in a
> > > variety of ways: “True believers” tend to carry on regardless,
> > > continuing to repeat their favoured mantras ad nauseam. Some will give
> > > up and move on to the next worthy cause. Others will take stock, seek
> > > to understand the problem, and try to find another way forward.
> > >
> > > Jutta Haider, an associate professor in Information Studies at Lund
> > > University, would appear to be in the third category. Initially a
> > > proponent of open access, Haider subsequently “turned into a sceptic”.
> > > This was not, she says, because she no longer sees merit in making the
> > > scientific literature freely available, but because the term open
> > > access “has gained meanings and tied itself to areas in science,
> > > science policy-making, and the societal and economic development of
> > > society that I find deeply problematic.”
> > >
> > > But she has not given up on open access, as will be evident from
> > > reading the Q&A with Jutta Haider here:
> > >
> > > http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/the-open-access-interviews-jutta-haider.html
> > >
> > > Richard Poynder