<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">I wonder if it is a good idea for Open Access forums to become the publicity vehicles for commercial deals?</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Stevan Harnad</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/549-guid.html"><b>Scaling to Global OA: Parallel Local Green/Gold Is OK, But Gold Alone First, No Way</b></a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); min-height: 15px; "><br></div></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "><b>SUMMARY:</b></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Trying to morph incoming institutional non-OA journal-fleet subscriptions into outgoing institutional Gold OA journal-fleet "</font><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/539-guid.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">memberships</font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">" is </font><a href="http://blogsearch.google.ca/blogsearch?hl=en&num=100&c2coff=1&safe=active&ie=UTF-8&q=escher+OR++flip+blogurl%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&btnG=Search+Blogs"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">incoherent</font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> and cannot scale across journals and institutions; alongside an institutional </font><a href="http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Green OA mandate</font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">, however, it is innocuous: The Green mandates will ensure the real, </font><a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/15753/"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">leveraged</font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">, scalable, unstoppable progress toward global OA. Without an institutional Green OA mandate, pursuing local Gold OA "memberships" is not only futile but a retardant on real progress toward global OA, creating instead an illusory local sense of progress that further distracts from and obscures what really needs to be done locally to generate global OA.</font></div></blockquote></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></b></font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); min-height: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><strong><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/708-guid.html" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">The Immediate Practical Implication of the Houghton Report: Provide Green Open Access Now</font></a></strong></span><blockquote style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">ABSTRACT:</font></strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> Among the many important implications of </font><a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2009/economicpublishingmodelsfinalreport.aspx" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Houghton et al’s (2009)</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> timely and illuminating JISC analysis of the costs and benefits of providing free online access (“Open Access,” OA) to peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific journal articles one stands out as particularly compelling: It would yield a forty-fold benefit/cost ratio if the world’s peer-reviewed research were all self-archived by its authors so as to make it OA. There are many assumptions and estimates underlying Houghton et al’s modelling and analyses, but they are for the most part very reasonable and even conservative. This makes their strongest practical implication particularly striking: The 40-fold benefit/cost ratio of providing Green OA is an order of magnitude greater than all the other potential combinations of alternatives to the status quo analyzed and compared by Houghton et al. This outcome is all the more significant in light of the fact that self-archiving already rests entirely in the hands of the research community (researchers, their institutions and their funders), whereas OA publishing depends on the publishing industry. Perhaps most remarkable is the fact that this outcome emerged from studies that approached the problem primarily from the standpoint of the economics of publication rather than the economics of research.</font></blockquote></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/660-guid.html"><b>OA McMemberships, Dismemberment and MC Escher</b></a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>SUMMARY:</b></span></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Gold OA institutional "</font><a href="http://libraryfit.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/open-access-journals/"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">membership</font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">" is </font><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/See%20http://bit.ly/4HHngD"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">incoherent and does not scale</font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">. It only gives the illusion of making sense if you think of it locally, and myopically. Annual institutional subscriptions to journals containing the annual outgoing refereed research of all other institutions do not morph into annual institutional memberships for publishing each institution's own outgoing refereed research. There are 25,000 journals and 10,000 institutions! Is every single institution to commit and contract in advance to pay for its authors' (potential) fraction of annual submissions to every single journal? Is that a "membership" or a distributed dismemberment? And is every journal to commit and contract in advance to accept every institution's annual fraction of submissions? (Is that peer review?) This is a global oligopolistic illusion that would fit publishers just about as well as it would fit McDonalds, except there are at least 25,000 different journals to "join", and institutions each have thousands of author-consumers with diverse dietary needs, varying day to day and year to year.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><b><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/304-Gold-Conversion-A-Prisoners-Dilemma.html">Gold Conversion: A Prisoners' Dilemma?</a></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "><b>SUMMARY:</b></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Given the undeniable, irreversible and growing </font><a href="http://www.ec-petition.eu/"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">clamour</font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> for Open Access (</font><a href="http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">OA</font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">) worldwide, journal publishers face two </font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Prisoners' Dilemmas</font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">.</font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></span></span></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">(1) The first concerns whether to continue business as usual, to mounting </font><a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v445/n7126/full/445347a.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">opprobrium</font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> from the academic community as well as the </font><a href="http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">tax-paying public</font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">, or to </font><a href="http://www.infotoday.com/it/nov03/hane2.shtml"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">convert directly</font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> to </font><a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/21.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Gold OA</font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> now, at the risk that institutional subscriptions at current prices for incoming journals may not transmute stably into institutional "memberships" for outgoing article publication costs at the same institutional price. If publishers convert from institutional subscriptions to institutional Gold OA "memberships" today, they counter the opprobrium and lock in current subscription rates for a year (or whatever duration-deal is agreed with institutions), but they risk institutional memberships defecting after the duration elapses, with cost-recovery fragmented to an anarchic individual author/article level that may not be enough to make ends meet.</font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></span></span></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">(2) The second Prisoners' Dilemma facing publishers is that if they instead counter the opprobrium by converting to </font><a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13309/"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Green OA</font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> now (as </font><a href="http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">62%</font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> of them already have done), </font><a href="http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Green OA Self-Archiving Mandates</font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> may still force their conversion to Gold eventually, but because access-provision and archiving (and their costs) will by then be performed by the distributed network of mandated Green OA </font><a href="http://roar.eprints.org/"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Institutional Repositories</font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">, the revenues (and expenses) of journal publishing then may be </font><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/399we152.htm"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">reduced</font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> from what they are now. (Perhaps this can all be integrated into just a single Prisoners' Dilemma -- or perhaps it is not a Prisoners' Dilemma at all: just the </font><a href="http://cogprints.org/4841/"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">optimal and inevitable</font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> outcome of the powerful new potential unleashed by the online medium for the communication of peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific research.)</font></div></blockquote><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333233"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></font></b></span></font></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><strong><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/630-guid.html" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">On Not Putting The Gold OA-Payment Cart Before The Green OA-Provision Horse</font></a></strong></span><blockquote style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">SUMMARY: </font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Universities need to commit to </font><a href="http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">mandating</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> </font><a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/15753/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Green OA self-archiving</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> before committing to spend their scarce available funds to pay for </font><a href="http://www.oacompact.org/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Gold OA publishing</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">. Most of the university's potential funds to pay Gold OA publishing fees are currently committed to paying their </font><a href="http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-local/arlbin/arl.cgi?task=setupstats" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">annual journal subscription fees</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">, which are thereby covering the costs of publication already. Pre-emptively committing to pay Gold OA publication fees over and above paying subscription fees will only provide OA for a </font><a href="http://blogsearch.google.ca/blogsearch?hl=en&num=100&c2coff=1&safe=active&ie=UTF-8&q=denominator+OR+%28fraction+total%29+blogurl%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&btnG=Search+Blogs" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">small fraction</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> of a university's total research article output; Green OA mandates will provide OA for all of it. Journal subscriptions cannot be cancelled unless the journals' contents are otherwise accessible to a university's users. (In addition, the very same scarcity of funds that makes pre-emptive Gold OA payment for journal articles today premature and ineffectual also makes Gold OA payment for </font><a href="http://blogsearch.google.ca/blogsearch?hl=en&num=100&c2coff=1&safe=active&ie=UTF-8&q=books+OR+monographs+blogurl%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&btnG=Search+Blogs" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">monographs</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> unaffordable, because the university funds already committed to journal subscriptions today are making even the purchase of a single print copy of incoming monographs for the library prohibitive, let alone making Gold OA publication fees for outgoing monographs affordable.) Universal Green OA mandates will make the final peer-reviewed drafts of all journal articles freely accessible to all would-be users online, thereby not only providing universal OA, but opening the doors to an eventual </font><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/399we152.htm" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">transition</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> to universal Gold OA if and when universities then go on to cancel subscriptions, releasing those committed funds to pay the publishing costs of Gold OA.</font></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><strong><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/703-guid.html" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Springer's Already on the Side of the Angels: What's the Big Deal?</font></a></strong></span><blockquote style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">SUMMARY: </font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (</font><a href="http://www.vsnu.nl/Home-english.htm" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">VSNU</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">) has made a </font><a href="https://arl.org/lists/sparc-oaforum/Message/5368.html" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">deal</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> with Springer that articles by VSNU authors will be made OA. But </font><a href="http://romeo.eprints.org/publishers/74.html" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Springer</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> is already on the </font><a href="http://blogsearch.google.ca/blogsearch?hl=en&num=100&c2coff=1&safe=active&ie=UTF-8&q=springer+OR+angels+blogurl%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&btnG=Search+Blogs" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">side of the angels</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> on OA, being completely Green on immediate, unembargoed author OA self-archiving. Hence all VSNU authors are already free to deposit their refereed final drafts of their Springer articles in their institutional repositories, without requiring any further permission or payment. So what in addition is meant by the VSNU deal with Springer? that the Springer </font><a href="http://blogsearch.google.ca/blogsearch?hl=en&num=100&c2coff=1&safe=active&ie=UTF-8&q=PDF+blogurl%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&btnG=Search+Blogs" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">PDF</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> rather than the author's final draft can be deposited? That Springer does the deposit on VSNU authors' </font><a href="http://blogsearch.google.ca/blogsearch?hl=en&num=100&c2coff=1&safe=active&ie=UTF-8&q=proxy+blogurl%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&btnG=Search+Blogs" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">behalf</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">? Or is this a deal for prepaid </font><a href="http://blogsearch.google.ca/blogsearch?hl=en&num=100&c2coff=1&safe=active&ie=UTF-8&q=hybrid+blogurl%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&btnG=Search+Blogs" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">hybrid Gold OA</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">? In the case of Springer articles, it seems that what the Netherlands lacked was not the </font><u><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">right</font></u><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> to make them OA, but the </font><a href="http://blogsearch.google.ca/blogsearch?hl=en&num=100&c2coff=1&safe=active&ie=UTF-8&q=netherlands+mandate+blogurl%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&btnG=Search+Blogs" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">mandate</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> (from the VSNU universities and Netherlands' research funders like NWO) to make them OA. There are some signs, however, that this too might be on the way...</font></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><strong><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/546-guid.html" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">University of California: Throwing Money At Gold OA Without Mandating Green OA</font></a></strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/546-guid.html" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline; "></a></font></strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></b></span><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">On 2010-08-23, at 8:22 AM, Peter Suber wrote:</font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></font><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">[Forwarding from Renate Bayaz at Springer. --Peter Suber.]<br><br></font><div class="gmail_quote">
<div lang="DE" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">PRESS RELEASE</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Springer and
Helmholtz Association sign agreement for open access membership</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> </font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Cooperation
makes open access publishing easier for scientists</font></span></b></p><p style="line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Berlin / New York / London, 23 August 2010</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Following the launch of SpringerOpen (</font><a href="http://www.springeropen.com/" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">www.springeropen.com</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">), the
Helmholtz Association has signed a new agreement for an open access membership.
This agreement covers article processing charges for authors from the
participating Helmholtz research centres for articles published in SpringerOpen
and BioMed Central journals. </font></span></p><div style="line-height: 12pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">SpringerOpen journals are peer-reviewed open access journals in
emerging and interdisciplinary fields that complement both the established
Springer journal portfolios and BioMed Central’s growing list of over 200 life
science and biomedicine journal titles. SpringerOpen journals are e-only and
publish articles under the Creative Commons Attribution license. According to
this license, Springer will not reserve any exclusive commercial rights. </font></span></p><div style="line-height: 12pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Both SpringerOpen as well as Biomed Central journals charge article
processing fees to the author which make the journals’ content immediately and
freely available. The membership offering, introduced by BioMed Central, allows
institutions to directly support the payment of these fees and facilitate the
uptake of open access across their authors. Currently, authors from more than
340 institutions in 39 countries benefit from these memberships taking on full
or partial payment of article processing fees.</font></span></p><div style="line-height: 12pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">“We feel that the Springer open access journal portfolio is a good
match for the spectrum of the six main Helmholtz research areas (Energy, Earth
and Environment, Health, Key Technologies, Structure of Matter, and
Aeronautics, Space and Transport). We are pleased to enter into this
partnership opening new chances to develop an open access forum for research
results of our scientists. The agreement is part of our mission to establish
long-term mechanisms securing reasonable publication charges for open access
journals,” says</font><span style="color:red"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Dr. Bernhard Mittermaier, Head
of the Central Library of Forschungszentrum Jülich.</font></span></p><div style="line-height: 12pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">“We are delighted to see that the Helmholtz Association expresses
its support for SpringerOpen. SpringerOpen expands the option to publish in
fully open access journals to all scientific areas and it is encouraging to see
the scientific community reacting so quickly,” says Bettina Goerner, Manager
Open Access at Springer. </font></span></p><div style="line-height: 12pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">The </font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Helmholtz Association</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> (</font></span><a href="http://www.helmholtz.de/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">www.helmholtz.de</font></span></a><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">) contributes to solving major challenges facing society, science
and industry with top scientific achievements in six research areas: Energy,
Earth and Environment, Health, Key Technologies, Structure of Matter, and
Aeronautics, Space and Transport. With 30,000 employees in 16 research centres
and an annual budget of approximately 3 billion euros, the Helmholtz
Association is Germany’s largest scientific organisation. The Helmholtz
Association was one of the initial signatories of the Berlin Declaration on
Open Access in 2003.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> </font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Springer Science+Business Media</font></span></b><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> (</font></span><a href="http://www.springer.com/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">www.springer.com</font></span></a><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">) is a leading global scientific publisher, delivering quality
content through innovative information products and services. The company is also
a trusted provider of local-language professional publications in Europe,
especially in Germany and the Netherlands. In the science, technology and
medicine (STM) sector, the group publishes around 2,000 journals and more than
6,500 new books a year, as well as the largest STM eBook Collection worldwide.
Springer has operations in about 20 countries in Europe, the USA, and Asia, and
more than 5,000 employees. <br><br></font>
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since 2008. Founded in 1999, the STM publisher has pioneered the open access
publishing model. All peer-reviewed research articles published by BioMed
Central are made immediately and freely accessible online, and are licensed to
allow redistribution and reuse. BioMed Central is the largest open access publisher
in the world.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font>
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