Abstract
It is important for science to be accessible, not only for the researchers themselves and for scientific education but also for society as a whole and for ‘the citizen’.
• Making ‘green’ or ‘gold’ open access mandatory will greatly boost the move- ment towards open access.
• There are major differences between the disciplines.
• In some disciplines, open access is not an issue because researchers publish
their work in open access repositories.
• The quality of publications has the highest priority, and open access does
not in itself offer any guarantee for quality.
• Research assessment is still too heavily based on closed access leading
journals with a high impact factor.
• The charges associated with open access publishing are still too high for
researchers, and the process is often cumbersome.
• There is a great deal of uncertainty regarding the requirements and pos-
sibilities of open access.
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