Klaus Graf: German libraries are thwarting OA

Klaus Graf has posted an detailed critique of the way German libraries thwart open access. His post is in German, but he sent me this short English-language summary:

German libaries are working against OA. Reasons:

• only a small number of library journals are OA (see Bailey re ALA)
• ditto library scholarly literature
• libraries promote toll-access bibliographical databases
• as members of DigiZeitschriften (Germany's JSTOR) they are working against the scholarly interests
• they do not remove permission barriers (e.g. by labelling eprints with CC licenses)
• they claim [copyright] protection also for OAI-metadata
• they are tyrannts re permission to use public-domain materials and copyfraudists (most fervent accusation)
• they are blocking the building of a rich public domain (charging too high prices for digital reproductions)