> Yet people are pleased with a two year delay disseminating the most important research? The heartbeat of progress is the time it takes to disseminate informat

> Yet people are pleased with a two year delay disseminating the most important research? The heartbeat of progress is the time it takes to disseminate information. This is a bit of a strawman, don't you think? Researchers, the vast majority of whom are located in corporate R&D labs and universities, already have the subscriptions to big digital libraries so they can download papers as soon as they are published. The move towards open access mostly affects practising engineers outside this environment, and I think a delay of a year or two is acceptable in this scenario.