From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 16:30:38 +0000 >What am I missing? Do researchers not realize their agency? I think they do, but like all agents, the range of choices available to them is limited. Junior faculty technically have the option of placing their work wherever they want, but if they want to get tenure, their realistic options are more limited and they may have to publish in a journal that requires them to give up their copyright. Researchers (depending on the field) may have extremely limited options when it comes to funding sources — so if, for example, the National Institutes of Health says that accepting a grant from them means accepting certain kinds of reuse licensing on the resulting publication, the real-world impact on researcher’s choicemaking is significant. And so forth. No one’s agency is absolute. Not only do we all get to make choices, but we’re also very often forced to make choices. --- Rick Anderson Assoc. Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication Marriott Library, University of Utah [log in to unmask]