Harnad op-ed piece on OA
Peter Suber · 2004
Stevan Harnad, Knowledge freely given should be freely available, Montreal Gazette , January 5, 2003. Excerpt: "The authors of most books, for example, are quite aware that the Web is a medium in which texts can be made accessible to anyone, but they'd rather their readers paid for access. Most singers and songwriters feel the same way. Most people, in fact, would prefer to be paid for their work. But there's one prominent exception.