I do sincerely apologize for this boring video, a few talking heads is not the right medium to pass a message. An important message that is. But I couldn’t find any palatable alternatives on YouTube. Has nobody tried to make an attractive, short film on this subject?Anyway, a couple of bigshots from the Dutch University world passing the message on the importance of Open Access. They talk in Dutch, but this version has English sub-titles.
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The photo in the header is the street where we live. You can actually see our house, it is behind the completely brown cow. An old brick house, in a row of 4 houses, built in 1931 or thereabout. The photo has been taken from the floodplains of the Rhine. These are flooded on a regular basis. Between the cows and the street there is a small water which a kind of artificial creek.
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Thanks for showing that one. As you say, not very lively, but… a good hairdresser and barber could have done wonders
However, by open access they appear to be talking about only one form - repositories. The success of open archives depends absolutely upon the cooperation of the publishers, and these guys are the people who could actually make a considerable difference by pumping resources not into institutional archives, but into new open access journals. Until someone with vision is at the top, we’re locked into the commercial publishing sector, which is doing all it can to make sure that scholarly communication never escapes from its grip. Very disappointing.
Tom
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@Tom, yes you are right in that respect, but it is important that they call upon repositories as a way to achieve open access. That there are more roads to achieve the goal of complete open access is another message we have to get across.