[BOAI] Harnad Comments on Proposed HEFCE/REF Green Open Access Mandate

[Stevan Harnad]

Full Text: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/994-.html

*Executive Summary:* *The proposed HEFCE/REF Open Access [OA]
mandate<http://www.hefce.ac.uk/media/hefce/content/news/news/2013/open_access_letter.pdf>
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that in order to be eligible for REF, the peer-reviewed final draft of all
journal articles must be deposited in the author’s institutional repository
immediately upon publication, with embargoes applicable only to the date at
which the article must be made OA – is excellent, and provides exactly the
sort of complement required by the RCUK OA mandate. It ensures that authors
deposit immediately and institutionally and it recruits their institutions
to monitor and ensure compliance.
      For journal articles, no individual or disciplinary exceptions or
exemptions to the immediate-deposit are needed, but embargo length can be
adapted to the discipline or even to exceptional individual cases.
      Embargo length is even more important for open data, and should be
carefully and flexibly adapted to the needs not only of disciplines and
individuals, but of each individual research project.
      Requiring monograph OA if the author does not wish to provide it is
not reasonable, but perhaps many or most monograph authors would not mind
depositing their texts as Closed Access.*
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