Slideshare of the presentation, which is also embedded below
[Updated 25/11/2012]
I enjoyed this candid witty almost samizdat* 15 November talk by Stephen Curry at the 2012 Research Libraries UK conference. I think plenty of readers would do likewise, as much as anything else because Curry's perspectives are those of a highly visible life scientist who "came to Open Access late", mainly as a reaction to the (subsequently failed) US Research Works Act [slide 3]. Curry is mercifully unzealous, and also clear about how complicated OA issues actually are.
To my mind he gets the balance right between Gold and Green; and he understands the reasons for the differences between disciplines in their views about OA. He also talks persuasively but realistically about impact factor and the need for alternative ways of judging the quality of an article than by the prestige of the journal in which it appears. Curry's "Why we are not there yet?" points [on slide 11], and list of "Residual challenges" (slide 14) are spot-on, not least his calls for a unification of "the broad church of OA", and for openness on the profits and taxes of the publishers.
[25/11/2012 update - Janet Finch's Accessibility, Sustainability, Excellence - How to expand access to published research findings and Mark Thorley's Going for Gold? The RCUK Policy on Access to Research Outputs are available here.]
* it's the camera angle
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