[BOAI] RCUK Still Sleep-Walking on Open Access (Wake-Up Call)

[Stevan Harnad]

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CARROT & STICK NEEDED FOR GREEN OPEN ACCESS
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comment on
"Carat and stick: no hard targets for gold open
access<http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=422001&c=1>
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(Paul Jump, *Times Higher, *2 Dec 2012)

RCUK is increasingly confirming that it is sleep-walking ("Implementing
Finch<http://www.acss.org.uk/docs/Open%20Access%20event%20Nov%202012/OAWorkshop.htm>"
Academy of Social Sciences, 29-30 Nov 2012).

All this talk about how to spend the Gold OA money, how much there is of
it, how it is to be monitored -- but *not a word about how cost-free Green
OA is to be monitored*.

And now a leisurely 5 years in which to discover what a big, unnecessary
mistake RCUK is making if it does not shore up its Green OA
mandate<http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september12/harnad/09harnad.html>(for
which there has already been a 5-year "acculturation" period). The
rest
of the world <http://vimeo.com/53696882> -- focussed on doing just that --
will meanwhile leave the UK far behind in its wake if RCUK does not wake up.

(Wake up call:
Attention Douglass
Kell<http://9wZW4gYWNjZXNzIg&qesig=A4iFBWeF9xNT4eBk-GwK4w&pkc=AFgZ2tl46g7kfLsTmoxOsKQ4wHKrgIWvwOwrq6nzR3TchGBABbZapItEHRcarIHlCS0uu_GEUVzCC1z06irrf_qQI5BAKD_3Tw&pq=kell%20lead%20rcuk%20openaccess&cp=28&gs_id=3p&xhr=t&q=kell+lead+rcuk+%22open+access%22&pf=p&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&oq=kell+lead+rcuk+%22open+access%22&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=60c64a7dcd180e02&bpcl=39314241&biw=1060&bih=768>&
Mark
Thorley<http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&lr=&q=harnad%20OR%20Harnad%20OR%20archivangelism+blogurl:http://openaccess.eprints.org/&ie=UTF-8&tbm=blg&tbs=qdr:m&num=100&c2coff=1&safe=active#q=thorley+blogurl:http://openaccess.eprints.org/&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=active&tbo=d&tbm=blg&tbas=0&source=lnt&sa=X&ei=IN66UIXvG6je0gG7iIHoDg&ved=0CBoQpwUoAA&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=35167f32fa20ab05&bpcl=39314241&biw=1060&bih=768>
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*"Why the UK Should Not Heed the Finch
Report<http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/07/04/why-the-uk-should-not-heed-the-finch-report/>
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*"Testing the Finch Hypothesis <http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.8174>"*
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*"How and Why RCUK Open Access Policy Needs
Revision<http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/342647/>
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*"There's no justifying RCUK's support for [hybrid] gold open
access<http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/sep/03/rcuk-gold-open-access-research-unjustified?newsfeed=true>
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*"Planting the green seeds for a golden
harvest<http://www.cfses.com/projects/Going%20for%20Gold%20-%20Comment%20and%20Clarification%20(Houghton%20and%20Swan).pdf>
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