[BOAI] Re: [sparc-oaforum] Open access: What price affordability?

[Stevan Harnad]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Richard Poynder <
ricky at richardpoynder.co.uk> wrote:

>
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> [W]hat if funders, governments and research institutions ceased providing
> money for researchers to pay to publish, and instead insisted that they
> continue publishing in subscription journals—but always self-archived their
> papers in OA repositories (green OA)? Would this not mean that publishers
> would have to compete with repositories in access provision? And would they
> not as a result lower their prices? And if they did, could we not hope to
> see both the accessibility and affordability problems resolved?
>

It's enough to cease providing money for researchers to pay to publish
(gold OA) -- no need to insist that they continue publishing in
subscription journals, just that the always self-archive their paper in
their institutional OA repository (green OA) immediately upon acceptance
for publication. Nature will take care of the rest (a transition from
today's access-denial, embargoes and fool's gold to universal green OA,
fair gold, and all the re-use rights
<https://www.google.com/webhp?tbm=blg&gws_rd=ssl#q=harnad+re-use+rights&tbm=blg>
for which some are so impatient (but which they have no better or faster
way to reach). (By the way, the repositories' automated request-copy
<http://j.mp/RequestCopyButton> Button
<https://www.google.com/webhp?tbm=blg&gws_rd=ssl#q=harnad+button&tbm=blg> will
tide over any publisher green OA embargoes with just one click from a user
to request -- and one click from the author to provide -- a single copy for
research purposes.)


Harnad, S (2014) The only way to make inflated journal subscriptions
unsustainable: Mandate Green Open Access
<http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/04/28/inflated-subscriptions-unsustainable-harnad/>
. *LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog **4/28*
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/04/28/inflated-subscriptions-unsustainable-harnad/


Sale, A., Couture, M., Rodrigues, E., Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2012) Open
Access Mandates and the "Fair Dealing" Button
<http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18511/>. In: *Dynamic Fair Dealing:
Creating Canadian Culture Online* (Rosemary J. Coombe & Darren Wershler,
Eds.) http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18511/

Stevan Harnad



On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Richard Poynder <richard.poynder at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ​I have had an editorial published in ecancer journal with the above
> title.
>
>
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> The final two paragraphs read:
>
>
>
> [W]hat if funders, governments and research institutions ceased providing
> money for researchers to pay to publish, and instead insisted that they
> continue publishing in subscription journals—but always self-archived their
> papers in OA repositories (green OA)? Would this not mean that publishers
> would have to compete with repositories in access provision? And would they
> not as a result lower their prices? And if they did, could we not hope to
> see both the accessibility and affordability problems resolved?
>
>
>
> Some will respond that in the wake of the pushback against the Finch
> Report, and the subsequent gold OA policy announced in 2013 by Research
> Councils UK, the trend now is in any case to introduce green OA mandates.
> But these mandates still sometimes expect researchers to prefer gold OA,
> and are usually accompanied by APC funds. Moreover, the requirements of a
> green OA mandate can in any case be met by paying to publish in a gold OA
> journal. For so long as funders offer to pay their APCs, therefore, most
> researchers will likely choose that option, if only because it is much
> easier.
>
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> http://ecancer.org/journal/editorial/41-open-access-what-price-affordability.php
> ​
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