Delivering open access: from promise to practice

Law, Derek (2006) Delivering open access: from promise to practice. Ariadne (46). ISSN 1361-3200 (http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue46/law/)

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Abstract

An anniversary issue of Ariadne commissioned articles to predict the landscape ten years ahead. This contribution concludes that Open Access is a battleground where a ragamuffin band of academics and librarians are challenging the imperial pomp of billion dollar global companies. In those terms the contest is both unequal and unwinnable, since too much inertia is built into the system. However, as the article tries to show there are powerful drivers and change agents in place - technology; the nature of research; Google; national interest - which coupled with the sheer bloody-mindedness and persistence of the proponents of open access will lead to its growth as the dominant form of scholarly discourse. Whether that scholarly discourse will still include the journal article as we know it is a much more difficult question.

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  Item type:	Article
  ID code:	30932
  Dates:	Date Event 2006 Published
  Subjects:	Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Information resources > Electronic information resources
  Department:	Professional Services > Information Services
  Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
  Date deposited:	01 Jun 2011 09:17
  Last modified:	30 Nov 2024 01:04
  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/30932