Accés Obert: Modeling Open Access in Catalonia | EDUCAUSE

"As an academic librarian responsible for acquiring publications from Western Europe, I have always been interested in how the transition to open access is evolving worldwide, particularly as we are unable to keep up with the skyrocketing costs that commercial publishers charge. In October 2016, I conducted interviews with Lluís Anglada and Ernest Abadal, two of Spain's foremost scholarly communications experts, about the state of open access publishing in Catalonia and in Spain more broadly. They explained the factors underlying OA's expansion in Spain despite lingering effects of the 2008 worldwide recession."