RE: Does More Mean More?

["David Prosser" <david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk>]

I'm confused by an apparent contradiction.  Joe Esposito wrote 
(06/02, with emphasis added):

But if one were to eliminate all these gatekeepers or filters, 
from colleagues and readers to editors (as distinct from 
publishers) and peer review boards--before one even gets to the 
person who finances the whole game, the publisher--the number of 
publications would explode.

Sally Morris wrote (06/02)

And studies have shown that pretty much all papers end up getting 
published somewhere.

If Sally is correct and essentially all scholarly papers are 
published somewhere then Joe's contention that a move to open 
access would result in an explosion of papers (the starting point 
of this thread) surely can't be right.  Or am I missing 
something?

Best wishes

David