The suggestion being made here is that open access runs counter to academic freedom. Rick Anderson writes, "You can't simultaneously enjoy "full freedom in publication" and operate under a regime that requires you to publish in very specific ways — especially when those modes of publication require you to give up important rights granted to you by law." I think he overstates his point. Academic freedom has never guaranteed that you would be published - that has always been up to journal editories and juries. Nor can you publish just anything - it has always been an academic wrong to falsify reserach results or publish someone else's work. The requirement to publish in an open access publication is no more of a limitation than any of these, and it has the effect of protecting the rights of those with no means to coerce the author - the reader.
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