Open Access: Could defeat be
snatched from the jaws of Victory?
When
news broke early in 2019 that the University of California had walked away from
licensing negotiations with the world’s largest scholarly publisher (Elsevier),
a wave of triumphalism spread through the OA Twittersphere.
The
news had added piquancy coming as it did in the wake of a radical new European
OA initiative called Plan S. Proposed in 2018 by a group of European funders
calling themselves cOAlition S, the aim of Plan S is to make all publicly
funded research open access by 2021.
Buoyed
up by these two developments open access advocates concluded that – 17 years
after the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) – the goal of universal (or
near-universal) open access is finally within reach. Or as the Berkeley
librarian who led the UC negotiations put it, “a tipping point” has been
reached. But could defeat be snatched from the jaws of success?
For
the author’s take on this topic, pl. read the eBook
eBook
Link | https://richardpoynder.co.uk/Jaws.pdf
Regards
Mr.
Pralhad Jadhav
Master of
Library & Information Science (NET Qualified)
Senior
Manager @ Knowledge Repository
Khaitan
& Co
Twitter
Handle | @Pralhad161978
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