In what he calls a "watershed moment" for open access, Richard Poynder writes (18 page PDF), "legacy publishers have now effectively co-opted the OA movement. And this has been done in a way that will enable them to continue to control scholarly communication, and to continue making what many believe to be obscene profits from taxpayers (who ultimately foot the bill)." In addition, according to Poynder, the leaders of the open access movement - notably Stevan Harnad - have given up. Who next to lead? he suggests British Mathematician Sir Timothy Gowers. But this doesn't change the fact that it is academics themselves who have been lethargic. Academics themselves who demonstrate through inaction that they don't care about affordability. Why would we expect academia to support open access? That's like suggesting that the peerage abolish the knighthood.
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