Gavin - I am in complete agreement with you. Open Access is one of many tools developed out of the maturing of the 'net.
What I have a continuing issue with is the constant rehashing of 'Who Pays. . .'
In our own context, we are massive consumers of Open Access material and will be the first ones to embrace any Fee Service System that develops or support through donation any other system which is put in place. I advocate neither, but will gladly contribute to either when the time comes. For us it will simply be another incurred cost.
We are going to list our effort with ROARMAP as soon as we can compose wording which best describes what we do. We don't exactly fit any standard educational/research model.
I have represented Camp One as a signatory on every petition which has come along and the Berlin Declaration is on the 'Required' reading list, right next to the full text of Alice's Restaurant, which holds as the source testament for the MATH Not METH movement. Knowledge is Power, as the old slogan says, anything which advances the general literacy of the world is a positive thing.
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