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It is beyond my powers of comprehension to fathom why Cornell University would want to throw $50K of scarce library funds at funding Gold OA publication (for at most 0.1% of Cornell's annual journal article output) without first mandating Green OA (for the remaining 99.9% of Cornell's annual journal article output) at no cost at all.

(Yes, $50K is a pittance compared to $18M library budget, but wasn't this supposed to be about providing OA to Cornell's research output?)

Stevan Harnad
American Scientist Open Access Forum

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