Deborah E. Wiley [is the] Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, John Wiley & Sons, Inc....
What is the most over-discussed scholarly communication issue: OPEN ACCESS! Ms. Wiley observed that there is much repetition of principles and declarations. Not enough...attention is focused on the business model, and scholars themselves not that interested.
Comment. It's not fair to criticize such a short paraphrase of longer remarks. So I'll be hypothetical: if anyone were inclined to make these claims, I'd have to reply that they were not paying attention. First, there is far more discussion nowadays of practical implementations of OA, including business models, than declarations. Look at any week of my blog archive as an example, or the "round-up" section of any issue of my newsletter. Second, every study of scholar attitudes toward OA shows much less lack of interest than lack of understanding and lack of familiarity with the options.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/14/2007 12:49:00 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.
