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