Three years of open access efforts: preprints are my future | Sylvain Deville

"Even if you do not want to pay to make your papers open, there is therefore a lot you can do today to make your papers and their code/data available. Even though it’s nice to see individuals fighting for this, I believe that the most efficient way to change the system is for the funders to require open access. The ERC does this now. Other funders are joining the trend. Even reluctant academics will change their habit, because they won’t have the choice. And this actually be done rapidly. The journals will have to adapt, somehow."