What a rubbish argument! This can only be true of a small country with a
disproportionally massive commercial scholarly publishing sector (that
isn't avoiding taxes via some small island tax haven).
The Netherlands? Perhaps Britain? That's it.
Jan Velterop
On 30/12/2015 12:25, Richard Poynder wrote:
As Keith Jeffery puts it, “We all know why the BOAI principles have
been progressively de-railed. One explanation given to me at an
appropriate political level was that the tax-take from commercial
publishers was greater than the cost of research libraries.”
http://bit.ly/1OslVFW.
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