[GOAL] Re: Media research analyst at Exane BNP Paribas Sami Kassab on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

[Andrew A. Adams]

RIchard Poynder quotes Sami Kassab from an interview:
> The same goes for institutions. Elsevier has over 4,000 institutional
> clients around the globe. Less than 300 institutions have signed OA
> mandates worldwide. In contrast, MOOCs have taken the higher education
> world by storm with hundreds of institutions experimenting with MOOCs
> within a few months.

Hmm, something of a apples and oranges comparison here. Experimenting with 
MOOCs could better be likened to having an institutional repository into 
which staff members are allowed to deposit articles, rather than the adoption 
of a strong deposit mandate. I know of no University that has required the 
development of any MOOC (it's one of my areas of research). So far, the MOOCs 
on offer are those produced by the early enthusiasts for teaching innovation, 
at similar proportions (a tiny percentage of all staff) who voluntarily 
deposited their papers in the early days of OA.


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