Re: [GOAL] Open access strategy and political change: a question

I am not so familiar with British politics, but I believe there are two lines of argument that can prove (already proved actually) to be very efficient in the American context. One is the taxpayer access argument, with the rising emphasis now on

Re: [GOAL] Open access strategy and political change: a question

Around the time of the Finch Report in the UK one of the arguments one heard against the UK attempting to be a first mover towards total open access was that it we would ‘give away’ our research to competitors (especially the Chinese - the whiff of xenophobia in the argument was always a

[GOAL] Open access strategy and political change: a question

I am not an expert on politics, so apologies if my assumptions here are naive: It appears to me that some governments, notably the US and the UK, have undergone a political shift from a trend towards globalization towards protectionism / emphasis on the local. Whether this is a good idea or not