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Why Don't Scholars Provide Open Access to Their Articles?
Stuart Shieber, Berkman Faculty Director
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Let us stipulate, for the purpose of discussion, that open access to the scholarly literature is a Good Thing for the individual scholars and for society as a whole. Why then, do scholars not make their articles available through open access? In particular, why are institutional repositories so poorly populated? (See, for instance, "Institutional Repositories: Evaluating the Reasons for Non-use of Cornell University's Installation of DSpace"