What's holding Open Access publishing back?
David Jennings,
DJ Alchemi,
Oct 04, 2011
Sometimes it seems that we are advancing at the speed of glue. As David Jennings writes, "you find a research paper that looks useful, but it costs $30 to read the 15 pages if you haven't got some kind of institutional subscription." What gives? Why is this still the case? Here's part of it: "Despite this acknowledgement of the wider context of research publication, almost all the research on how to spread Open Access — including Moore's and our own — seems to focus on researchers and not on the other players in the ecosystem." And as he, Seb Schmoller, and Nicky Ferguson say in their report, "there seems to be a skew in the research on Open Access diffusion towards studying the attitudes and motivations of the "talent" in the research world, rather than the "managers" and middle (wo)men."
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