This paper reports on the results of a large world-wide survey on authors' opinions regarding commercial publishing and open access. Overall, the authors report scepticism and sometimes hostility toward commercial publishers. As the report authors write, "There is no longer any doubt that the journals crisis is real." On the other hand, there is little support for the concept of author payment to support open access. One respondent wrote, "I would expect open access journals to be very inexpensive to produce. Thus, I thought your question about the range of prices charged to authors to be rather odd. I would expect prices to be on the order of $100-$300, not $500-$5,000!" But on the whole, authors showed little interest in copyright and a favorable disposition to open access. Another respondent: "I strongly support a global ban on privately owned and run journals, including national organisations. All journals should be owned by the whole human race."
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