The solution is not to blame the newcomers to publishing but to learn how to adapt to a new landscape that will not have much tolerance for paying for things just because it suits outdated business models.
(PS: The context is book publishing and the clueless, almost other-worldly complaints of Francisco Pinto Balsemao, head of the European Publishers Council, blogged here yesterday. But Blossom's advice carries over to the domain of journals and self-archiving. If applied to the 11/24 Royal Society position statement, it could be translated this way: The solution is not to blame OA archiving but to learn how to adapt to a new landscape.... Or, as we've been saying for years, the purpose of OA is not to punish publishers who make excessive profits but to take advantage of new opportunities created by the internet to advance all the purposes of science and scholarship.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/08/2005 12:50:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
