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If you are looking for a short, easy-to-understand statement that gets absolutely everything about Open Access completely wrong, you can’t do much better than this: Hidden cost of open access in Times Higher Education. Luckily, the commenters set it straight. So does Peter Suber, who also adds an important point:
The success of the OA movement means that every day newcomers hear about it for the first time. One of the burdens of that success is that many newcomers pick up and spread old myths about it. If Altbach isn’t new to OA issues, then he’s inexcusably careless with them, and his claim about peer review is one of the classic myths that newcomers have been picking up and spreading for years.
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