Social and mobile: a threat to open access? « Repositories Support Project

"Dave Kellog CEO of MakeLogic referred to an article by Chris Anderson in Wired Magazine, October 2010: “The web is dead. Long live the internet”....He says: “You’ve spent the day on the internet but not on the web…This is not a trivial distinction. Over the past few years, one of the most important shifts in the digital world has been the move from the wide-open web to semi-closed platforms that use the internet for transport but not the browser for display”. This is giving the industry a second bite at the commercial cherry. With the web, content has been freed (illegal downloads and all that) but they won’t make the same mistake with mobile. More than one speaker raised this. So what, if any, are the implications for scholarly communication and open access? ..."