CC BY and Its Discontents: An OA Challenge

摘要

Recently I attended two sessions of the conference of a major learned society in the humanities. Both dealt with issues related to open access (OA), and in both I was deeply taken aback by the degree to which an overwhelming majority of the scholars in attendance expressed frustration and even anger at the OA community. The word predatory was used at one point-not in reference to rapacious publishers but to OA advocates. That was pretty shocking. In a different meeting, I listened to a presentation by the executive director of another large, important scholarly society, this one in the social sciences. His presentation was not heated, but he made it clear that among his organization's members there is deep dissatisfaction with significant aspects of the OA movement's current direction.