Let’s not pull any punches here. We are unimpressed. Late last week HEFCE published a blog: Are UK universities on track to meet open access requirements? In the blog HEFCE identified the key issues in meeting OA requirements as:
Right. So the deliberate obstruction to Open Access by the academic publishing industry doesn’t factor at all?
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None of the early career researchers I have been interviewing seem to have noticed that it was commissioned by the Publishers Research Consortium. It was mentioned in our original invite and as we have added a few questions in our second year I sometimes draw attention to the change and explain it is something our funders wanted. What is surprising is that very few of these interviewees seem to recognise the existence of publishers unless we ask directly which we do in one question. For them the editor-in-chief is the figure they relate to either when responding to reviews or refereeing themselves. The same invisibility goes for libraries and we have changed our questions about discovery to make sure they tell us where they actually find the content they are looking for
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Anthony Watkinson
Principal Consultant CIBER Research
Director Charleston Conference
Honorary Lecturer University College London
Sorry everyone. I am rather obsessed with researcher attitudes at the moment!