Thanks to Phil Davis for <a href="http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/04/01/mergers-create-uber-publisher/">posting</a> this leak about the possibility of an <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">Elsevier/Springer/Wiley-Blackwell</span> mega-merger.<div>
<br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Advice to OA Advocates:</span> Pay no attention. The merger is of no interest or consequence for OA, which, as always, depends on one thing and one thing only: <a href="http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/">Mandating Green OA self-archiving</a> on the part of all universities and research funders.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Don&#39;t let this take your eye off the ball!</div><div><br></div><div>Stevan Harnad <br></div>