So, Everything Is OA Now!

As the ideology fails, proponents retreat to rhetoric to eke out a sense of relevance

“There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.” — George Orwell

I never thought I’d see the day when OA proponents would publicly embrace the subscription model as a form of OA.

Yet, in the face of a movement and ideology collapsing under its own faults, and with advocates unwilling to lose face, that’s exactly what we’re starting to see.

In a mock dialogue discussing the “One Country, One Subscription” deal in India on “The Scholarly Kitchen,” Lisa Hinchliffe writes:

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