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