A Look Back: Challenges of OA in 2017 - Copyright Clearance Center

"Over the course of the year, three issues repeatedly reared their heads as barriers to the successful implementation of Open Access: the burden of expected author OA expertise; the underutilization of metadata in the publication lifecycle, and the challenges posed to authors and institutions by one-off solutions. October 2017 marked the tenth Open Access Week. With its theme on the concrete benefits of making scholarly research openly available, where have we gotten to in solving these problems and realizing the potential of OA?"