Random Ramblings—Confessions of an Open Access Heretic

摘要

I'm an open access heretic. I attended one of the many meetings on open access at the Charleston Conference in early November 2018. Theacademic library speaker predicted that 80% of all articles would be open access within the next few years. A publisher said that all articles in his journals would be available on the company Website. I raised my hand as soon as the question session began and revealed my heretical stance. I reported that I had written an article on developments in open access from 2015 to early 2018, soon to be published in Library Trends, where I concluded that academic libraries had not benefitted from open access and that they should worry about the unintended consequences of its success.