{"id":1412,"date":"2012-06-28T14:31:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T18:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/pamphlet\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2012-06-28T14:31:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T18:31:29","slug":"the-inevitability-of-open-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pamphlet\/2012\/06\/28\/the-inevitability-of-open-access\/","title":{"rendered":"The inevitability of open access"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
\"...wave<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
…wave of the future…<\/span>
\n“Nonantum Wave<\/a>” photo by flickr user mjsawyer<\/a>. Used by permission (CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/a>).<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I get the sense that we’ve moved into a new phase in discussions of open access. There seems to be a consensus that open access is an inevitability. We’re hearing this not only from the usual suspects in academia but from publishers, policy-makers, and other interested parties. I’ve started collecting pertinent quotes. The voices remarking on the inevitability of open access range from congressional representatives sponsoring the pro-OA FRPAA<\/a> bill (Representative Lofgren) to the sponsors of the anti-OA RWA<\/a> bill (Representatives Issa and Maloney), from open-access publishers (Sutton of Co-Action) to the oldest of guard subscription publishers (Campbell of Nature<\/em>). Herewith, a selection. Pointers to other examples would be greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n

“I agree which is why I am a cosponsor of the bill [FRPAA<\/a>,\u00a0HR4004<\/a>], but I think even if the bill does not pass, this [subscription journal] model is dead. It is just a question of how long the patient is going to be on life support.”<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), March 29, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

“As the costs of publishing continue to be driven down by new technology, we will continue to see a growth in open access publishers. This new and innovative model appears to be the wave of the future.”<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Darryl Issa (R-CA) and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), co-sponsors of H.R. 3699 (\u201cThe Research Works Act\u201d), February 27, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

“I realise this move to open access presents a challenge and opportunity for your industry, as you have historically received funding by charging for access to a publication. Nevertheless that funding model is surely going to have to change even beyond the welcome transition to open access and hybrid journals that\u2019s already underway.\u00a0To try to preserve the old model is the wrong battle to fight.”<\/p>\n

\u2014 David Willetts\u00a0(MP, Minister of State for Universities and Science), May 2, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

“[A]\u00a0change in the delivery of scientific content and in the business models for delivering scholarly communication was inevitable from the moment journals moved online, even if much of this change is yet to come.”<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Caroline Sutton (Publisher, Co-Action Publishing), December 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

“My personal belief is that that’s what’s going to happen in the long run.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Philip Campbell (Editor-in-chief, Nature<\/em>), June 8, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

“In the longer term, the future lies with open access publishing,” said Finch at the launch of her report on Monday. “The UK should recognise this change, should embrace it and should find ways of managing it in a measured way.”<\/p>\n

\u2014 Janet Finch (Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester; Chair, Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings), June 18, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

“Open access is here to stay, and has the support of our key partners.”<\/p>\n

\u2014 Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, July 25, 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0(Hat tip to\u00a0Peter Suber<\/a>\u00a0for pointers to a couple of these quotes.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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