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

[Paul THIRION]

Dear Richard

Maybe what you say  is not as general as you think. For example in my 
institution a recent large survey shows that 91% of researchers are 
"satisfied" or "very satisfied" by ORBi (our IR). +90 % add all or 
allmost all their publications on ORBi. For the deposits made in 2016, 
+65% of deposits with FT are OA. Last thing, recently it's the 
researchers themselves who asked to add Open Access as a key element in 
the strategic plan of the institution...

Not sure we are the only one institution in the world where OA won the 
hearts and minds of most researchers :-)

Best regards

Le 22/02/17 à 09:17, Richard Poynder a écrit :
>
> 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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