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<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>*Apologies for cross-posting*<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The Open Access Scholarly Publishers
Association (OASPA) is calling for greater clarity from research funders and
institutions on the payment of open access publication fees. With an ever
growing number of high quality open access journals available to authors there
is still confusion regarding the funding streams that authors can use to pay
publication charges. OASPA therefore welcomes the publication of a recent guide
from the Research Information Network (RIN) and Universities UK (UUK): Paying
for Open Access Publication Charges (<a
href="http://www.rin.ac.uk/openaccess-payment-fees">http://www.rin.ac.uk/openaccess-payment-fees</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The Guide makes a number of helpful
recommendations to both research funders and institutions. In particular, the
existence of funds out of which open access publication charges can be made
should be communicated to authors and the criteria under which these funds may
be used should be clearly defined.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Alerting authors to the existence of
publication funds allows authors to exercise greater choice in deciding which
journals to submit their work to and ensures that publications compete on
quality, services to authors and readers, and value-for-money. A recent series
of studies by Professor <st1:PersonName w:st="on">John Houghton</st1:PersonName>
and co-authors has suggested that open access may provide greater returns on
the investment tax-payers make on research than other access mechanisms. (<a
href="http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=316">http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=316</a>)
To realize these benefits funders and institutions should work on removing the
barriers to the free uptake of open access.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>OASPA will work towards providing
greater clarity and transparency on the payment of open access publication
charges and this is one topic that will be discussed at the First Conference on
Open Access Publishing to be held in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Lund</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Sweden</st1:country-region></st1:place> in
September (<a href="http://www.oaspa.org/coasp/index.php">http://www.oaspa.org/coasp/index.php</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>David Prosser<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>On behalf of the OASAP
Board<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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