<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​Rant 1​</div><br></div>At the end of the day, publishers, libraries, scholarly societies exist to disseminate science and serve their constituencies: scholars, funders, society as a whole. Not the other way around. The burden on those institutions is to “add value” to the processes the true stakeholders really value.<div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​Rant 2</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It’s up to publishers (and libraries) to figure out how they are going to add value in a changing landscape. ​</div><br><div><br><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2014/08/29/open-access-rants-hanging-together-on-the-goddam-wagon/">http://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2014/08/29/open-access-rants-hanging-together-on-the-goddam-wagon/</a></div></div></div>