FrederickFriend writes
> I welcome these contributions by Eric van de Velde and Stevan Harnad
> because we do not hear enough from the research community. Some
> librarians have been very supportive of OA, but even those who
> support OA do not appear able
or not interested.
> to break away from the current toll-access system in the collection
> development decisions they take.
Yes, and unless libraries start to do that, the toll-gate
access system will survive. The lack of access to published
research is a problem of libraries, not of researchers or
of publishers.
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
http://authorprofile.org/pkr1
skype: thomaskrichel
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