From: Thomas Krichel <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 23:52:16 +0000 Hamaker, Charles <[log in to unmask]> writes > Elsevier and its cynical relationship with authors and institutions, > has been demonstrated by Elsevier itself. No one could have done this > to them but themselves. > > The tide of OA, of authors making sure people who need to see it, > get to read their research, OA in all its guises, is inexorable and > if handled correctly even by such behemoths as Elsevier, will lift > all boats in the publishing stream, despite the scaremongers and > naysayers in publishing, or the mistaken advice of some in > libraries, or even among OA advocates themselves. It's logic is > persuasive, its goals commensurate ultimately with what authors want > for their own research. To put up and enforce barriers to what > scholars want to distribute that they themselves produce is > antediluvian. You talk the talk Charles. Will you now walk the walk and cancel your Elsevier subscriptions? Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel