The German association of specialized publishers, Deutsche Fachpress, has released the results of a short member survey on OA. (Thanks to Klaus Graf.)
Only 7.5% said that OA was already affecting their business models and 40% admitted they didn’t know how to evaluate it. Nevertheless, 72.5% said that they could not do their jobs as well as they do now under OA. For more, read the press release in German or Google’s English.
PS: This was a quick survey (“Blitzumfrage”) that only required five minutes of each respondent’s time. I haven’t seen the questions, but they could not have been very nuanced.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/28/2007 12:43:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
