Mismeasure of the Needs of Research, Researchers, Universities and Funders

Phil Davis continues his inexplicable preoccupation with what's best for the publishing industry, at the expense of what is best for research, researchers, their institutions, their funders, and the tax-paying public that funds the research, institutions and funders, the ones by and for whom the research funded. Phil's latest point is that the low uptake by authors of committed Gold OA funds indicates that authors don't really want OA. But authors themselves have responded quite clearly, and repeatedly, in Alma Swan's international surveys, that they do need, want, and value OA. Yet they also state that they will only provide OA to their own writings if their institutions and funders require (i.e., mandate) them to provide it.