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Essays on Open Access
The Open Access (OA) Movement seeks to ensure the immediate, free and unrestricted online access to digital scholarly material, notably research articles published in refereed journals. The essays below on Open Access, and the Open Access Movement, were written by journalist Richard Poynder.
These essays are published on the blog Open and Shut? In some cases, the full-text is available as a downloadable PDF file. They have been published under a Creative Commons licence. This licence permits you to copy and distribute the interviews as you wish, so long as you credit Richard Poynder as the author, do not alter or transform the text, and do not use the interviews for any commercial purpose.
The essays:
- Open Access: “Information wants to be free”? (December 2020)
- Open access: Could defeat be snatched from the jaws of victory? (November 2019)
- Plan S: What strategy now for the Global South? (February 2019)
- Preface: Open Divide? (January 2018)
- Falling prey to a predatory OA publisher: Individual failure or community problem? (July 2018)
- The Open Access Big Deal: Back to the Future (March 2018)
- Preface to a new book called Open Divide? Critical Studies on Open Access, edited by Ulrich Herb and Joachim Schöpfel (January 2018)
- Has the open access movement delayed the revolution? (October 2017)
- On sponsorship, transparency, scholarly publishing, and open access (July 2017)
- Copyright: the immoveable barrier that open access advocates underestimated (February 2017)
- Open Access, Almost-OA, OA Policies, and Institutional Repositories (December 2015)
- Predatory Publishing: A Modest Proposal (September 2015)
- Emerald Group Publishing tests ZEN, increases prices: what does it mean? (July 2015)
- HEFCE, Elsevier, the “copy request” button, and the future of open access (June 2015)
- Open Access and the Research Excellence Framework: Strange bedfellows yoked together by HEFCE (February 2015)
- Let's be open about Open Access (October 2013)
- UK House of Commons Select Committee publishes report criticising RCUK's Open Access Policy (September 2013)
- Open Access: Springer tightens rules on self-archiving (June 2013)
- Open Access: Emerald’s Green starts to fade? (June 2013)
- The UK’s Open Access Policy: Controversy Continues (May 2013)
- Open Access: A Tale of Two Tables (February 2013)
- A New Declaration of Rights: Open Content Mining (June 2012)
- PLoS ONE, Open Access, and the Future of Scholarly Publishing (March 2011)
- Open Access: Who pays? How much? (November 2009)
- Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity: Mistaking intent for action? (September 2009)
- E-Biomed 2.0? (August 2009)
- Open Access: Whom would you back? (March 2009)
- Open Access: The question of quality (November 2008)
- Open Access: Doing the numbers (June 2008)
- Open Access: The War in Europe (March 2007)
- Open Access: Beyond Selfish Interests (November 2006)
- Open Access: Death Knell for Peer Review (October 2006)
- Clear Blue Water: Institutional Repositories (March 2006)
- Not Written in the Stars (December 2005)
- Struggling with Agnosia (November 2005)
- The Role of Digital Rights Management in Open Access (April 2005)
- No Gain Without Pain (Published in Information Today in November 2004)
- Ten Years After (Published in Information Today in October 2004)
More essays will follow. Please note that while these works are made freely available to all, they are written by a freelance journalist who makes his living from writing. To assist him to continue making work available in this way you are invited to make a voluntary contribution. The suggested figure is $10 per essay, but feel free to contribute as you think appropriate. This can be done quite simply by sending a payment via PayPal quoting the email address richard.poynder@btinternet.com. It is not necessary to have a PayPal account to make a payment.
If you point anyone else to the essays please consider directing them to this page, rather than directly to the PDF files themselves. If you would like to republish any of the interviews on a commercial basis, or have any comments on them, please email the author at richard.poynder@journalist.co.uk.
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