OA doesn’t cost jobs: it creates them. And saves lives.

"I was contacted today by someone studying the NIH Public Access policy. In his introductory email he discussed the context for the study, including the “claim by proprietary scientific and technical publishers that they have been damaged by the policy and that extending it to other government funded research would cause a considerable loss of jobs—a powerful claim in the current economic and political environment.” Thinking about this claim has made me so mad I have to blog it out. (To be 100% clear: I’m not angry at the person who contacted me, I’m mad at the claim)...."