Lambda the Ultimate

SIGPLAN is the ACM Special Interest Group (SIG) that focuses on Programming LANguages. It runs many of the field's academic conferences (ICFP, PLDI, POPL, SPLASH...) and its elected members are recognized researchers of the field (the chair and vice-chair are Jan Vitek and Jeremy Gibbons). It recently ran a survey on Open Access, questioning respondent's opinion on Open Access at large, Green vs Gold open-access, archival strategies, or indirectly-related questions such as "conferences vs. journals".

The results of the survey are summarized and present there: Who Owns Your Research: A Survey.

A harsh summary:

• Everyone knows Open Access is the right way to publish research.
• Seniors and Americans care about the ACM more than Juniors and Europeans.
• Many people would "just use Arxiv" (but then, why are so few of our field's article made available on arxiv?)
• Most do not care about Gold OA (where authors pay the publisher to make the article publicly available)
• There is no consensus on "conferences versus journals"