Open Access @ Strathclyde · CESAER and Strathclyde: a subject-based approach...

"For many years Open Access implementation has been approached in a generic way without much emphasis in the differences across disciplines. In a community often prone to schisms, there was a lively argument some years ago between advocates of subject-based repositories – a solution much preferred by researchers – and proponents of institutional repositories. After some heated exchanges on the mailing lists it became clear that, as usual, the way to follow would be a co-existence of both approaches. Once Open Access has gradually become mainstream thanks to the policies issued by research funders and public administrations, there is still a fundamental discipline-agnostic roadmap guided by the commitment to achieve full OA by 2020. At the same time though, initiatives like SCOAP3, the Open Library of Humanities and LingOA are exploring new business models to support a large-scale shift to Open Access on a disciplinary-based approach while subject-based repositories like arXiv and PubMed Central (PMC) regularly top the worldwide repository rankings."