Re: UK article on Open Access

[Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

Stay tuned! The author of this article, Bobby Pickering, has written that
it will be covered in more depth in the next issue of IWR. The view may
prove quite different...

Stevan Harnad

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Joseph Esposito wrote:

> An article just appeared in Information World, whose headline reads:  
> "Open access publishing on the decline?  Government response to Committee
> findings points to decline of open access movement as a significant reason
> for staying with the status quo"  The URL is:
> http://www.iwr.co.uk/IWR/1159363, though I had some trouble loading the
> page at first.
> 
> I think the article has it right:  For the short-term, OA has peaked.  
> The "great tsunamai" that people are talking about hasn't happened--and
> won't, at least not yet.  But longer term the pieces are being put in
> place that will make OA more and more common.  The article does not
> address the long term.  I am thinking in particular of the "leakage" from
> proprietary journals through email attachments, author self-archiving, and
> institutional archives.  Something like DSpace, which makes it very easy
> for an author to do exactly what Stevan Harnad wants him or her to do, is
> probably going to play a very large role in raising the flow from leakage
> to a steady stream, and visitors to the Grand Canyon know what a steady
> stream can do when given enough time.
> 
> -- 
> Joe Esposito