The open access movement began in the 1990s focusing on unrestricted access to scholarly published works and maintaining authors' rights to their research.  Advocates of the open access movement, including scholars, academic institutions, funding organizations, and libraries, have worked to provide equitable access to research while mitigating the costs associated with OA models (e.g. article processing fees). However, after 20 years of advocacy and negotiated agreements with publishers, some proponents of the open access movement have declared the initiative a failure.

The facilitated POSE Open Access Discussion will focus on an interview with Richard Poydner in The Scholarly Kitchen. Poydner, a freelance journalist and former supporter of the OA movement,  states:

Open access was intended to solve three problems that have long blighted scholarly communication – the problems of accessibility, affordability, and equity. 20+ years after the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) we can see that the movement has signally failed to solve the latter two problems. And with the geopolitical situation deteriorating solving the accessibility problem now also looks to be at risk. The OA dream of “universal open access” remains a dream and seems likely to remain one.

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