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  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
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