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What are the factors inhibiting OA?

Michael’s comment on my earlier post got me thinking: What are all the factors inhibiting uptake of OA by authors, funders, institutions, and publishers? And how important is each factor?
There’s a folk wisdom about these questions already. How many times have I heard a variation on this sentence:
Authors don’t self-archive / don’t publish in OA [...]

  • Science dudes, are you even listening to me??