Re: Forthcoming OA Developments in France

[Peter Banks <pbanks@bankspub.com>]

On 6/27/06 9:48 PM, "Stevan Harnad" <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> Multiple author surveys --
> international and multisciplinary -- as well as repeated
> experience with actual mandates have shown that there will be
> very high rates of compliance.

Really?

The NIH had about 4% compliance with its request for voluntary deposit in
PMC.

The 2005 CIBER author survey concludes, "At the moment, 
relatively few researchers are familiar with the concept of 
institutional repositories...such evidence as we have suggests 
that--at the population level--there is no great interest or 
drive from the author community for this model." (page 43)

Even the Swam paper you cite doesn't suggest high levels of 
awareness of interest in OA. A slight majority had not placed a 
paper in an IR, and about three quarters of these didn't even 
know about repositories.

What all the evidence does suggest is that most authors would 
comply, sometimes grudgingly, with IR deposit if forced to, much 
as they would comply with the need to pay taxes or get a wisdom 
tooth extracted.

Peter Banks
Banks Publishing
Publications Consulting and Services
pbanks@bankspub.com