Whither (and Whether) OA?
lkfitz's bookmarks 2016-10-23
Summary:
"We’ve now been discussing, advocating for, and arguing about open access for something like twenty years. (The first formal declaration on the topic was issued in 2002, but OA has been a subject of serious discussion in the scholarly-communication world since at least the mid-1990s.)
An awful lot has changed since the turn of the 21st century, even though the underlying issues have remained roughly the same [...] "