Weishaupt highlights four conclusions (my paraphrase, not a translation):
OA could be implemented much more broadly than it has been to date.
OA journals benefit everyone, not just the author.
Not all the alleged disadvantages of OA journals turn out, on analysis, to be disadvantages at all.
Universities and other research institutions could be doing much more to promote OA.
Weishaupt surveyed about 1,000 researchers at Humboldt University Berlin in May and June 2008.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/23/2008 09:52:00 AM.
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.
