One question asks whether you believe that OA journals are "radical".
Another asks whether OA entails that "archiving will suffer".
Another asks whether you'd like to "personally deal with any permission requests" and "deal personally with any legal disputes when copyright is infringed", leaving the impression that OA would impose these burdens. Of course, OA makes permission requests unnecessary and permits rather than restricts most acts that normally count as copyright infringement, such as copying and redistribution.
Granted, these are questions, not assertions. But they're loaded questions with misleading assumptions.
There's one more reason to distrust the results: The questionnaire doesn't ask for an email address or assign a validation code. There's apparently nothing to stop anyone from filling it out more than once.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/05/2008 10:42:00 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.