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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