<div style="text-align:center">**Cross-Posted**</div><div><br></div><div>Here are 12 recent writings on the new Finch/RCUK OA Policy recommendations in the UK. The latest has just appeared in D-Lib: </div><div><br></div><div>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,55,239)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Harnad, S (2012) <a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september12/harnad/09harnad.html">United Kingdom's Open Access Policy Urgently Needs a Tweak</a>.<i> D-Lib Magazine</i> Volume 18, Number 9/10 September/October 2012 </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,55,239)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september12/harnad/09harnad.html">http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september12/harnad/09harnad.html</a></span></p>
</div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div>I wouldn't be giving it all this time and attention if I didn't think the potential perverse effects of the policy, if uncorrected, were so pernicious for OA worldwide. </div>
<div><br></div><div>The flaw in the policy is easily fixed, but it does need to be fixed -- and promptly, and prominently -- before it has the chance to do the damage it is poised to do.</div><div><br></div><div>(Other OA advocates have also raised their voices for the requisite revision, including <a href="https://plus.google.com/109377556796183035206/posts/BftzqGjScc1?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20GPeterSuber%20(G%2BFeed%20of%20Peter%20Suber)">Peter Suber</a>, <a href="http://poynder.blogspot.ca/2012/09/budapest-open-access-initiative.html">Alma Swan</a>, & <a href="http://www.friendofopenaccess.org.uk/index.php/uk-open-access-stakeholders-post-finch">Fred Friend</a>. Please make your voices heard too.)</div>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial"> <a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/340294/"><span style="color:rgb(29,55,239)">http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/340294/</span></a></p>
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Harnad, S (2012) Why the UK Should Not Heed the Finch Report. <i>LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog</i>, Summer Issue</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial"> <span style="color:rgb(29,55,239)"><a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/341128/">http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/341128/</a></span><br>
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Harnad, S (2012) <a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/09/03/hybrid-open-access-repair-rcuk/">Hybrid gold open access and the Chesire cat’s grin: How to repair the new open access policy of RCUK</a>. <i>LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog</i> September Issue </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,55,239)"><span style="color:#000000"><a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/342582/">http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/342582/</a><br>
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Harnad, S (2012) <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/sep/03/rcuk-gold-open-access-research-unjustified?newsfeed=true">There's no justifying RCUK's support for [hybrid] gold open access</a>. <i>Guardian HE Network</i>. </span></p>
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Harnad, S (2012) <a href="http://www.cilip.org.uk/publications/update-magazine/pages/default.aspx">The Optimal and Inevitable outcome for Research in the Online Age</a>. <i>CILIP Update</i> September 2012 </span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,55,239)">
<span style="color:#000000"><a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/342580/">http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/342580/<br>
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Harnad, S (2102) <a href="http://digital-research.oerc.ox.ac.uk/programme/tues-am-keynote">Digital Research: How and Why the RCUK Open Access Policy Needs to Be Revised</a>. <i>Digital Research 2012</i>. Tuesday, September 12, Oxford. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,55,239)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,55,239)">Harnad, Stevan (2012) Research Works Act H.R.3699: The Private Publishing Tail Trying To Wag The Public Research Dog, Yet Again. Technical Report, ECS, University of Southampton <a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/273093/">http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/273093/</a> </p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,55,239)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,55,239)">Harnad, S. (2012) The UK's 6% Factor and the "Gold Trumps Green" Principle: Perverse Effects. Open Access Archivangelism. </p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,55,239)"><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/933-.html">http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/933-.html</a> </p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,55,239)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,55,239)">Harnad, S. (2102) RCUK Policy In Direct Contradiction With BOAI-10 Recommendations for Institutions. <i>Open Access Archivangelism </i> </p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,55,239)"><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/932-.html">http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/932-.html</a></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">Harnad, S. (2012) Simple 9-Word Strike-Out Tweak to Fix RCUK Open Access Mandate. <i>Open Access Archivangelism</i> </p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">
<a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/930-.html">http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/930-.html</a></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">Harnad, S. (2012) Finch Fiasco in Figures. <i>Open Access Archivangelism</i> </p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/905-.html">http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/905-.html</a></p>
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