This is in many respects a good paper, identifying as it does key drivers and mechanisms to support open access. Some points it makes are exactly right, such as "Transferring the copyright in a publication has become a relic of the past; nowadays a 'licence to publish' is sufficient." It is, however, deficient in its narrowness of scope - it regards, for example, all open access to be of the 'author-pay' variety employed by certain journals. And it doesn't seem to envision publication processes other than through peer-reviewed journals, which limits its consideration of both distribution and calculation of impact.
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