From Incentivizing the Open Access Research Web:
In contrast, all researchers, without exception, do want to make their publications P-OA, and the online infrastructure for publication-archiving (a worldwide interoperable network of OAI [1]-compliant Institutional Repositories [IRs][2]) already has all the requisite functionality for this.
Can I have some of what they’re smoking? Must be primo stuff.
I am tempted to rant, but I’m saving it for the Roach Motel article. Suffice to say my jaw dropped hard enough to take out some intervening floors. What world do these people live in that they can make this claim with a straight face? It ain’t my world, that’s for sure, lowly repository-rat that I am. Do they not even notice the bitterly bizarre irony of “incentivizing” a practice that everybody supposedly wants?
And how can they think that spreading bushwa like this helps anyone?
Right. Right. Not ranting. This is me not ranting. Back to the Roach Motel article now. Sheesh.
