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Article: OA in 2006: three tidbits.(open access )
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- Information Today
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- January 1, 2007
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As the new year begins, I found myself reviewing my "editorial fodder" file to see what stories attracted my attention last year but were never written up. Among the items I found were these three tidbits related to open access (OA).
* When we invited Danny Quah from the London School of Economics and Political Science to keynote our Internet Librarian International Conference last fall, we had no idea how seriously he would approach the subject of journal publishing economics. His remarks when he asserted that scholarly publishing was an economic anomaly actually shocked some of the audience. Instead of prices decreasing over the last few decades, they have ...