Laurie Taylor, Piercemuller in Parliament, Times Higher Education Supplement, March 12, 2009. (Thanks to Colin Steele.) From Taylor's humor column, The Poppletonian:
Publish and be Charged
Our university was honoured last week by a visit from Dave Bonanzer, the CEO of Cashmachine plc, one of the world's leading publishers of academic journals. Speaking to library staff, Mr Bonanzer praised the contribution made to scholarship by large-annual-increase-in-subscription-price journals.
"We must firmly resist", he told the seminar, "the dangerous moves being made towards open-access publishing by such institutions as Boston University. In difficult economic times, it is more important than ever that we preserve the tried-and-trusted process in which the Government funds research that, when completed, can only be assessed by unpaid peer reviewers and then published years later in private profit-making journals."
After taking questions, Mr Bonanzer was photographed alongside some of his more remunerative journals.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/13/2009 05:24:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
