Preconceived ideas are sometimes an obstacle to the practice of open access to publications.
This is why the University of Lyon Open Science working group has worked on a set of 6 posters dealing with these preconceived ideas, in the form of a dialogue between researchers, illustrated by a comic strip artist from Lyon. These posters are all freely accessible on HAL:
Poster n°1 : "L'open access ? Je maîtrise!"
Poster n°2 : "Publier en open access, ce n'est pas sérieux!"
Poster n°3 : "L'open access, les éditeurs sont contre!"
Poster n°4 : "L'open access facilite le plagiat"
Poster n° 5 : "L'open access, c'est la mort de l'édition"
Poster n°6 : "L'open access, ce n'est pas pour moi!"
HAL is also the subject of preconceived ideas; however, the CCSD has made a lot of changes to HAL these last years, to make the archiving simpler and faster. Click on one of the preconceived ideas below to see why it is unfounded!
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