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Alma Swan on the state of OA in Europe Richard Poynder has interviewed Alma Swan, January 10, 2008. The conversation focuses on the prospects for a OA mandate in Europe, but ranges over many other topics as well, including the link between OA and research assessment, the different fortunes of institutional repositories in the US and Europe, the demand for OA in developing countries, and the promise of data mining and the semantic web. Excerpt:
Update. Also see Richard's two-part interview with Alma from 2005 (Part One, Part Two). |