Immediate Practical Implication of the Houghton Report: Provide Green Open Access Now

Among the many important implications of Houghton et al.?s (2009) timely and illuminating
JISC analysis of the costs and benefits of providing free online access to
peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific journal articles, one stands out as particularly
compelling: It would yield a 40-fold benefit/cost ratio if the world?s peer-reviewed
research were all self-archived by its authors so as to make it OA.