What do you think about Open Access? | Attempting Elegance

"Amy Buckland (@jambina), Jim DelRosso (@niwandajones), and I spent an hour this morning at NYLA talking with our audience about Open Access. We framed the panel around 6 challenging statements about Open Access, then explained why we believe them, as possibilities or realities. I can’t replicate that discussion, but I can share the statements. [1] A child born today will use nothing but open access materials for research in college. [2] Textbook companies will go out of business as faculty realize they can write, compile, and publish their own customized open course texts. [3] Future discussions of the quality of library collections will focus not on the collections a library owns, but on the collections a library creates. [4] The adoption of open access collections will obviate proprietary discovery layers.  [5] It is irresponsible for federally-funded researchers not to make their work available in an open format. [6] True change in the scholarly publishing system will come from smaller liberal arts colleges, and not the big guys. What do you think?"