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Comment on The Open-Access Wars: Bullies Square Off on Library Listserv by Jean-Claude Guédon

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You may not have invented the term, but you certainly echo it, and even amplify it, with no caveats, quotations marks, or whatever, which means that, to a certain degree, you are likely to endorse the term.

Perhaps, for the future, you could consider the following: I declare most publicly that Stevan Harnad is a fine, very intelligent, cultured, refined human being and colleague. His sensitivity to others is quite remarkable. And yes, he defends his ideas most vigorously. You could then quote this to balance the possible ill effects of Richard Poynder’s mentioning (back in 2007!) that some people have used the word “bully” to paint Stevan with a broad brush.

What is more to the point is that Klaus and Stevan each defend one road to open access and essentially one road only. As they defend different roads, the dialogue between them does not work very well, as I can testify, having seen them in the same room in Budapest in 2012 (for BOAI10). But we were all staunch OA advocates in that room, and there were about 20 other people discussing together. Despite obvious divergences, we still managed to draft BOAI10. So, focusing on Stevan and Klaus is taking a very narrow take on the open access movement and offering a caricatural view of the OA advocates.


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