Indeed, Larry!
And Stevan Harnad is quite right is refusing to equate Open Access with the Gold
Road.
In fact, Open Access is made up of two approaches: OA publishing or "Gold Road"
and self-archiving or "Green Road". And both roads are valuable, arguably
equally (although differently) valuable.
As for Wallace-Evans, one only has to see how he characterized Robert K. Merton
("most pusillanimous"... ???) to realize that the barbarians are at the gates.
It is a pity to see a priodical like Nation fall this low. I used to like
reading Nation when I was a student.
Jean-Claude Guédon
Le dimanche 14 novembre 2010 à 10:21 -0500, Stevan Harnad a écrit :
One can sympathize with Larry Lessig's frustration in "An Obvious
Distinction":
LL:
"In 2010, [for David Wallace-Evans] to
suggest [in a 6000-word review in The
Nation] that [the Creative Commons movement]
'exhort[s]… piracy and the plundering of
culture'... betrays not just sloppy thinking
[but] extraordinary ignorance… [and lack of]
respect for what has been written… This
terrain has been plowed a hundred times in
the past decade… Reading is the first step
to… respect for what has been written...
Reading is what Wallace-Wells has not done
well."
Larry tries to correct Wallace-Evans's 6000 sloppy words with 878
carefully chosen ones of his own.
Let me try to atone for my own frequent long-windedness by trying to
put it even more succinctly (20 words):
Creative Commons' goal
is to protect
creators' give-away rights --
not consumers'
(or 2nd-party copyright-holders')
rip-off rights.
(Reader's of the American Scientist Open Access Forum may have a
sense of déjà lu about this since at least as far back as December
2000:
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1048.html
)
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Harnad, Stevan (2000/2001/2003/2004) For Whom the Gate
Tolls? Published as: (2003) Open Access to Peer-Reviewed
Research Through Author/Institution Self-Archiving:
Maximizing Research Impact by Maximizing Online Access.
In: Law, Derek & Judith Andrews, Eds. Digital Libraries:
Policy Planning and Practice. Ashgate Publishing 2003.
[Shorter version: Harnad S. (2003) Journal of
Postgraduate Medicine 49: 337-342.] and in:
(2004) Historical Social Research (HSR) 29:1. [French
version: Harnad, S. (2003) Cielographie et cielolexie:
Anomalie post-gutenbergienne et comment la resoudre. In:
Origgi, G. & Arikha, N. (eds) Le texte a l'heure de
l'Internet. Bibliotheque Centre Pompidou: 77-103.
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The persistent "piracy" canard calls to mind others like it,
foremost among them being:
"OA ≡ Gold OA (publishing)"...
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Harnad, S., Brody, T., Vallieres, F., Carr, L.,
Hitchcock, S., Gingras, Y, Oppenheim, C., Stamerjohanns,
H., & Hilf, E. (2004) The green and the gold roads to
Open Access. Nature Web Focus
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--
Jean-Claude Guédon
Professeur titulaire
Littérature comparée
Université de Montréal
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