From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 15:01:48 -0500 A useful video to explain the basics of open access to people who haven't heard about it before, but as a publisher I naturally find that it oversimplifies some important points. E.g., it implies that publishers alone are to blame for the increasing costs (and hence prices) of publishing scientific articles, without mentioning anywhere the rate of increase in the production of articles by scientists who want to get them published and the reaction by publishers to launch new journals and expand the size of already existing ones. Nor does it mention the practice of universities underfunding both their libraries and their own presses (while they are happy to spend lots more on football and basketball teams). The question of how taxpayer-funded research can best be disseminated in unrestricted form is never addressed either, such as the longstanding proposal to require that all researchers be required to submit final reports and that those reports be made freely available immediately upon submission. And while it acknowledges that publishing costs money, there is no acknowledgment that OA approaches may exacerbate some problems--like drawing money out of research funding to support article publication charges--while ameliorating others. Hence I would hardly call this video a balanced presentation. Sandy Thatcher > From: Ken Masters <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:46:06 +0400 > > Hi All > > You might find this recent video on Open Access interesting: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=L5rVH1KGBCY#! > > Regards > > Ken > > Dr. Ken Masters > Asst. Professor: Medical Informatics > Medical Education Unit > College of Medicine & Health Sciences > Sultan Qaboos University > Sultanate of Oman