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

Paul THIRION Paul.Thirion at ulg.ac.be
Thu Feb 23 19:53:57 GMT 2017



Le 23/02/17 à 15:53, Richard Poynder a écrit :
> I would be interested in further details of the survey you mention 
> Paul. Have the details been published?
No. It was only internal. But it could be fine to publish them. I just 
need time
>
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>>     <http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/copyright-immoveable-barrier-that-open.html>
>>
>>     Richard Poynder
>>
>>
>>
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