[Open-access] Infrastructure reform [was: Crowdsourcing request + BMJ OA Policy]

Tue Mar 25 13:56:47 UTC 2014

On Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 1:53:46 PM, you wrote:

> e.g. I am suggesting minimal costs to cover running the
> thing (less than £1m per year, perhaps more if it really
> becomes a worldwide service but that would be a happy
> problem), filling it with ALL the literature, telling
> everyone to use it and to put their new stuff there, and
> then defending the right to do so when we get sued - being
> sued does not mean we are doing something wrong, we just
> need to be able to afford to argue the case. 

Sounds like a decent plan, not really different from what I thought of, I just failed to mention the lawsuit part :-)

Thanks for keeping this in mind.

Bjoern

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