Re: Another Winning Article From OA's Chronicler

From: Stevan Harnad <amsciforum_at_GMAIL.COM>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:39:56 -0400

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Joseph Esposito wrote:

      The real thrust of the world of open access �is neither
      green nor�gold, but what I have termed "unwashed,"
      the��growing--world of material�that is not
      peer-reviewed....

      The evidence is mounting that many advocates of open
      access have�never actually used the Internet... �

      Increasingly peer�review will be post-publication, not
      pre-publication. �I suspect�all this talk about Gold and
      Green is a waste of everybody's�time.


Or could it be that some of the opponents of Open Access to the 2.5
million�articles published annually in the planet's 25,000
peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific�journals have never actually
done any scholarly or scientific�research, hence never published in a
refereed journal, and never had any need to�consult one for their
scholarly and scientific research?

Stevan Harnad
Received on Fri Mar 13 2009 - 22:40:48 GMT