[BOAI] Re: RCUK & EC Did Not Follow Finch/Willets

[Thomas Krichel]

  Prof. T.D. Wilson writes

> The situation may have changed since then, but
> there is obviously a lot of variation from institution to institution.

  But there is is one common thing. No university have come out 
  to warrant the public that for a certain period, say a year,
  they have to complete output of their faculty in the repository
  as open access documents. 

> if, for example, those thousands of mathematicians who have revolted
> against the high subscription costs of Elsevier were to collaborate
> in the publication of a new mathematics journal, I suspect that it
> would rapidly achieve 'high quality' status.

  But there is no collaborating force there. Ultimately these protests
  fail becasue there is no indidiual incentive to carry out the threat
  of not publishing in high-cost journal if the publishers don't
  reduce prices.

  But subscription cancellations are both collectively and
  individually rational.

> Ultimately, the fact that the technology now makes the role of the
> publisher redundant is going to be recognized and open publishing will
> prevail - perhaps not in what is left of my lifetime

  The green road as it looks today will not lead to full open access in
  anybody's lifetime, based on the fact I have in my first paragraph.

  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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