RE: Correction (RE: Thatcher vs. Harnad)

["Rick Anderson" <rickand@unr.edu>]

> Gold OA (OA publishing) doesn't lower anyone's productivity, 
> and certainly not in this way.

Except to the degree that it raises barriers to publication for 
authors -- which, of course, it does.  (Granted, it also lowers 
barriers to access for readers, though it also imposes 
significant costs elsewhere which I think have been fairly 
thoroughly discussed here.)

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Rick Anderson
Dir. of Resource Acquisition
University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
rickand@unr.edu