Internet Evolution - Stevan Harnad - Opening Research on the Web: Hastening the Inevitable

Over 100 institutions (starting with Southampton, and now including Harvard and MIT) and over 40 research funders (including NIH and RCUK) have mandated Green OA so far. There exist about 10,000 universities worldwide; all the dominoes are ready to fall. The news of the practical simplicity of OA's means and the scientific/scholarly (and financial) benefits of OA’s ends just needs to propagate. We now need to do all we can locally to hasten the optimal and inevitable outcome globally.