Research intelligence - 'We all aspire to universal access'

Graham Taylor of the Publishers Association "believes there is no substance to accusations that publishers have dragged their feet over open access. He agreed that, with open-access articles still accounting for less than 10 per cent of the total published each year, progress would "require some acceleration if we are to get to what we might call the tipping point". But he insisted that all publishers "aspire to universal access": the problem is that it takes time to implement a "sustainable, scalable, funded solution" to achieve it...."