From: Richard Poynder <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:10:24 +0000

Fifteen years after the launch of the Budapest Open Access Initiative
the OA revolution has yet to achieve its objectives. It does not help
that legacy publishers are busy appropriating open access, and
diluting it in ways that benefit them more than the research
community. As things stand we could end up with a half revolution.

But could a new development help recover the situation? More
specifically, can the newly reinvigorated preprint movement gain
sufficient traction, impetus, and focus to push the revolution the OA
movement began in a more desirable direction?

This was the dominant question in my mind after doing a Q&A with
Philip Cohen, founder of the new social sciences preprint server
SocArXiv.

More here: http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/the-oa-interviews-philip-cohen-founder.html