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