Jill is preparing a presentation at an open access scientific publishing conference in Bergen. Jill, of course, registers her work at the university’s institutional repository Bora. But the people running it have great problems catching the interest of professors and researchers. Even doctoral candidates: Only 15 percent agree to publish their dissertations in Bora, and many don’t even bother to reply to requests.

I would think that the chance to get your work out to the public and the scientific world should be incentive enough for researchers, but obviously that isn’t the case. So what could speed them up? Extra pay? An open access police force (if they could find the professors, that is)? Web publishing courses given by Jill?

UPDATE: In her extended entry from the presentation, Jill lists some reasons why scientists are reluctant.