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

[Richard Poynder]

I would be interested in further details of the survey you mention Paul.
Have the details been published?

My suspicion is that ORBi and Liège are not typical so far as OA and
institutional repositories are concerned.

Richard Poynder


On 23 February 2017 at 12:35, Paul THIRION <Paul.Thirion at ulg.ac.be> wrote:

> 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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