RE: Fair's fair

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

Joe

I note that you have picked on my facetious opening so as to 
avoid the main point.  What is the mechanism under which a move 
to open access will cause a flood of new papers so leading to 
greatly increased costs?  You tell us that ' Open Access will 
significantly increase the cost of scholarly communications by 
creating incentives for production.' I've explained why I think 
there will not be significant new incentives to publish, could 
you explain why you think there will be?

Best wishes

David C Prosser PhD
Director
SPARC Europe

-----Original Message-----
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Joseph J. Esposito
Sent: 27 October 2006 01:40
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Fair's fair

David Prosser said:

"It is always fun to see what new evils open access will be
responsible for - today it is the possible bankrupting of the US.
I'm sure famine and pestilence will not be far behind."

I would be interested to know how much library expenditures have
declined since the advent of the Open Access movement.

Joe Esposito