Thoughts on the many different paths to achieving open access
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An invited keynote talk given for the Liverpool Open Research Week 2023
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/open-research/open-research-week-2023/
Talk abstract:
Ross will reflect on how progress towards providing open access to all academic research is going; the good, the bad, and the ugly.
The good is: we're starting to realise that a lot of the problem boils down to copyright issues. The emergence and normalisation of rights retention is undoubtedly healthy.
The bad news is: there are significant problems in the way that money is being spent to enable open access e.g. "transformative agreements" (sic). Transformative for whom?
The ugly: Journal Impact Factor™ is statistically illiterate, negotiable, and irreproducible, but some researchers are still making decisions using it. The real question now is not can we get universal open access to research, but how.
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MOUNCE-Liv-Open-2023.pdf
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