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Danah Boyd, open-access is the future: boycott locked-down academic journals, Apophenia, February 6, 2008. Excerpt:
Comment. I support most of Danah's suggestions, I strongly support OA journals, and I'm glad to see that her post has created good buzz in the academic blogosphere. However, her post, and nearly all the posts I've seen in response, assume that publishing in an OA journal is the only way to provide OA to a peer-reviewed research article. That's not so, and it needlessly ties the hands of researchers who want to make their own work OA. (Boyd did self-archive a 2006 preprint of her article.) Here's the comment I posted to her blog, with a few minor touch ups:
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