Re: Correction (RE: Thatcher vs. Harnad)

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

Rick is making some very important, fine distinctions, and I for 
one appreciate the clarity of his thinking.  (I also appreciate 
the pep talk.)

Allow me to share one comment I heard this week from a prominent 
economist. He said that the proliferation of copies of articles 
on the Internet has made it very time-consuming for him to cite 
articles properly.  Open Access, in other words, has LOWERED his 
productivity.  He expressed great frustration about this.

This, of course, is a fixable situation.  But who will fix it, 
and how will the fix be financed?

Joe Esposito

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Anderson" <rickand@unr.edu>
To: "Rick Anderson" <rickand@unr.edu>; <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 5:53 PM
Subject: Correction (RE: Thatcher vs. Harnad)

> To correct myself:
>
> > It's also important to recognize that OA has not simply 
> > "happened."  Some kinds of OA are happening (with results both 
> > good and bad), but mandates, for example, have not happened 
> > (yet).
> What I should have said was that the most potentially 
> destructive kinds of legal mandates have not happened in a 
> truly widespread way, yet. There are, of course, some OA 
> mandates in place, though many (most?) of them are more like 
> "requests" than mandates and many of them provide for 
> reasonable embargo periods.
>
> ---
> Rick Anderson
> Dir. of Resource Acquisition
> University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
> rickand@unr.edu