The EU-funded SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing) project sent me a
request to take part in a questionnaire. Despite my misgivings of such a
project including as one of the partners such a self-interested party as one
of the world's largest academic publishers (foxes and hen-houses come to mind
here - nothing wrong with such organisations being involved as research
subjects but being core members of the research team is clearly a conflict of
interest) and despite my dislike of even the title (open access publishing,
instead of the real topic which needs research, i.e. open access) let alone
the description of work, I've taken part in this survey. I included making my
views on their wrong-headed and biased questioning focussing purely on Gold
OA clear in the free-text fields available. See the details of the survey
below.
AAA.
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Subject: Please share your opinion on open access publishing
From: Springer <springeralerts_at_springer.delivery.net>
Your views on open access publishing are needed!
Springer has partnered with CERN, The Max Planck Society, and others in the
European Commission-funded project SOAP – Study of Open Access Publishing.
Please support the project by completing a short survey on open access:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/soap_survey_a
More about SOAP
The Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP) analyzes researchers’ attitudes
towards, knowledge of and experiences with open access. The resulting
insights and recommendations will be shared with the European Commission,
publishers, research funding agencies, libraries and researchers.
Your contribution will be very valuable in shaping the public discourse on
open access, and we would be very grateful if you could take 10-15 minutes to
complete this survey.?
Thank you in advance for your help!?
Best regards,
Bettina Goerner
Manager Open Access
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Received on Thu May 13 2010 - 18:26:35 BST