Germany’s Shocking Court Ruling Strikes Down Open Access Mandate—What This Means for Academic Freedom and Research Worldwide

Germany’s Shocking Court Ruling Strikes Down Open Access Mandate—What This Means for Academic Freedom and Research Worldwide

This leads to the European Commission’s fascination with SPR. Advocates are not pushing for SPR so that authors have a new “right;” they are doing it to feed mandated repositories. If the EU ultimately concludes that SPR serves some valid purpose and pushes this concept on EU member states, we will certainly see a lot more litigation. As of today, Round 1 goes to the academics.

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