Slides used to argue against the motion that the majority of academic publications should be in open access journals. Debate held at The Open University, UK in November 2016.

1. Open
Access
Debate
17th November
2016
Dr. Rob Farrow

2. Arguing against the motion: 'This
house believes that the majority of
academic work carried out by the
Learning Teaching and Innovation
portfolio should be published in
openly accessible journals.’

3. Why shouldn’t you publish
open access?

4. Argument from injustice

5. Devaluing the research process

6. Argument from sustainability

7. Argument from
academic prestige

8. Argument from quality

9. Dissemination paradox

10. If you should publish open access,
should you do it “mostly”?

11. 'This house believes that the
majority of academic work carried
out by the Learning Teaching and
Innovation portfolio should be
published in openly accessible
journals.’

12. Argument from inconsistency

13. Argument from
imperfect implementation

14. Three possibilities:
1) The case for OA publication is not
made, therefore reject the motion
2) The case for OA is made, but the
motion is insufficient, therefore reject
the motion
3) The motion is too vague, therefore
reject the motion

15. Has the case for
OA been made?
No
Reject the
motion
Yes
Motion is
insufficient:
reject
Too vague
Reject the
motion

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