Nine interviews on open access
The June/July issue of Research Information has a special section on OA, Consensus is difficult in open-access debate, consisting of short interviews by RI’s Siân Harris with eight European leaders of the OA movement and one leading skeptic:
‘Open access is much wider than just readers not paying’
Martin Richardson, Oxford Journals
‘Academics have access anyway’
Michael Mabe, formerly of Elsevier
‘Text mining of subject archives will enable new facts to be discovered’
Robert Terry, The Wellcome Trust
‘Self-archiving should be mandatory’
Steven Harnad, University of Quebec in Montreal and University of Southampton
Update: Stevan Harnad has posted a corrected version of his interview.
‘The environmental community will embrace open-access’
Tim Smith, Institute of Physics Publishing
‘Many areas of research are funded by taxpayers but they do not see the results’
Matthew Cockerill, BioMed Central
‘The first priority should be awareness-raising’
Alma Swan, Key Perspectives
‘Our community is used to immediate release of preprints’
Jens Vigen, CERN
‘Get research authors to change their behaviour’
Leslie Carr, University of Southampton
Open Access News, 6/6/06
