Re: Fair's fair

["Joseph Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>]

I covered this topic in an essay a few years ago, "The Devil You Don't
Know," published in FirstMonday:

<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_8/esposito/index.html>

FirstMonday is an OA publication, BTW, which is my preferred 
venue.  I have been insisting all along that I am an OA advocate. 
Note that in the "Devil" essay, I outlined a plan for an 
economically sustainable form of OA.  The very same plan is now 
being rolled out in PLoS's latest offering. I have tried to put 
OA into a broader context of scholarly communications in a 
forthcoming issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing in an 
article entitled "The Wisdom of Oz" (Jan. '07, I believe).  I am 
sorry to burden readers of this list with citations to my own 
writings, but I cannot let stand the implication that I am 
somehow dodging the hard questions.

Joe Esposito

On 10/27/06, David Prosser <david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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-----
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> Sent: 27 October 2006 01:40
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> 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