Peter Suber's masterly rebuttals say it all:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/01/aappsp-response-to-oa-mandate-at-
nih.html
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/01/stm-response-to-oa-mandate-at-nih
.html
The Association of American Publishers and the International Association
of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers have made their
predictable and familiar response to the US NIH Green OA Self-Archiving
Mandate. They had used the same arguments to try to prevent Green
mandates from being adopted, both in the UK and the US, and every
point had been rebutted many, many times before:
Berners-Lee, T., De Roure, D., Harnad, S. and Shadbolt, N. (2005)
Open Letter to Research Councils UK: Rebuttal of ALPSP Critique.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11159/
The publishing lobby has failed, deservedly, to prevent adoption. Now
they are trying to delay implementation. And Peter answers them again,
point for point, decisively, and memorably.
But the publishing lobby is behind us now, a spent force. What we need
to turn to with full vigor now is the implementation of Green OA mandates
worldwide, at all institutions, in all disciplines.
Open Access to peer-reviewed research was optimal and inevitable ever
since the advent of the online era. It is now time to make it actual.
Stevan Harnad
AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM:
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.h
tml
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/
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