A new QA in a series exploring the current state of Open Access has been
published. This one is with Sami Kassab, an Executive Director at the
investment company Exane BNP Paribas.
Kassab runs the Media Research team covering professional publishing.
Amongst the companies he monitors are Reed
RIchard Poynder quotes Sami Kassab from an interview:
The same goes for institutions. Elsevier has over 4,000 institutional
clients around the globe. Less than 300 institutions have signed OA
mandates worldwide. In contrast, MOOCs have taken the higher education
world by storm with hundreds of
Andrew raises a good point about mixing apples and oranges.
There are more than 2,000 open access archives/repositories around the globe,
containing millions of documents (about 50 million, based on stats from the
Bielefeld Academic Search Engine).
Similarly there are close to 10 thousand
Some responses to UKCRC Comments on *UKCRC/CPHC Response to HEFCE Open
Access Consultation*:
*UKCRC reply to Question 1 *
*Although UKCRC and CPHC strongly supports open access, and thinks this
should be encouraged by HEFCE and the Research Councils, we oppose the
policy of introducing criteria
