Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge - #oaweek: The successes of #openaccess « petermr's blog

"My previous post outlined some of the differences between #openaccess and other Open initiatives and was, by implication, somewhat critical. In this post I’ll list some of the things that are successes or going well for #openaccess. In the next I’ll contrast this with things that are serious problems or failings.  I welcome criticism and may amend my position – one tragedy of OA is that useful debate is stifled by factionalism (I’ll discuss this later). So here’s my list of successes. (By implication important things that are not on the list (e.g. repositories) have serious problems) ..."