[GOAL] Copyright: the immoveable barrier that open access advocates underestimated

[Richard Poynder]

In calling for research papers to be made freely available open access
advocates promised that doing so would lead to a simpler, less costly, more
democratic, and more effective scholarly communication system. 

 

However, while the OA movement has succeeded in persuading research
institutions and funders of the merits of open access, it has failed to win
the hearts and minds of most researchers. 

 

More importantly, it is not achieving its objectives. There are various
reasons for this, but above all it is because OA advocates underestimated
the extent to which copyright would subvert their cause. 

 

That is the argument I make in a recently-posted text on my blog, which can
be accessed from this page:
http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/copyright-immoveable-barrier-that-open
.html

 

Richard Poynder

 

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