Big Deals, Big Macs and Consortial Licensing - Open Access Archivangelism

Amsciforum 2013-11-19

Summary:

Ann says: "Here’s the fondest hope of the pragmatic OA advocate: that we settle on a series of business practices that truly make the greatest possible collection of high-value material accessible to the broadest possible audience at the lowest possible cost — not just lowest cost to end users, but lowest cost to all of us." Here's a slight variant, by another pragmatic OA advocate: "that we settle on a series of research community policies that truly make the greatest possible collection of peer-reviewed journal articles accessible online free for all users, to the practical benefit of all of us." The online medium has made this practically possible. The publishing industry -- pragmatists rather than ideologists -- will adapt to this new practical reality. Necessity is the Mother of Invention. Let me close by suggesting that perhaps something Richard Poynder wrote is not quite correct either: He wrote "It was [the] affordability problem that created the accessibility problem that OA was intended to solve." No, it was the creation of the online medium that made OA not only practically feasible (and optimal) for research and researchers, but inevitable.

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Tags:

oa.new licenses oa.scoap3

Date tagged:

11/19/2013, 12:47

Date published:

11/19/2013, 07:47