Of hopes, villains, and Trojan horses : Open Access academic publishing and its battlefields

Open Access to scholarly literature has become a popular concept that rapidly catapulted onto the (European) science policy-making stage. In particular, since its inception some 20 years ago by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), there has been an idea that the conventional subscription-based system of scientific journal publishing should be gradually replaced with free online access worldwide. Because research results reported in such publications are often paid for through public funding, suggests a common argument, broader societal groups, practitioners, and other scholars should ha... Mehr ...