<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>Mark Thorley: "<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Stevan, </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">...As an advocate of Open Access I would like to think that you appreciate the fact that the UK is leading the world here..."</span></div>
</blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><br></blockquote></blockquote><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px">Mark, no, the UK is no longer leading the world with its new Finch/RCUK/BIS OA policy.</span></font></div>
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</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px">It's time to heed OA advocates that have been at this far longer than you, and fix the RCUK Policy.</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px"><br>
</span></font></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><a href="http://bit.ly/SuberRCUK" target="_blank">Peter Suber</a>: "<span style="line-height:18px;font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">The UK can do better. In fact, the RCUK can do better. </span><span style="line-height:18px;font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Its 2006 policy was better than the new policy. </span><span style="line-height:18px;font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">It only needed to be enforced."</span></blockquote>
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</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px">The RCUK Policy is fixable. Indeed it can be made much better than the old RCUK policy. And the UK can once again take the worldwide lead in OA Policy:</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px"><b>I. Drop the 9 words that make the RCUK Policy say the opposite of what it means.</b></span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px"><b>II. Adopt an effective compliance-verification mechanism for Green OA self-archiving:</b></span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px"><br></span></font></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="line-height:18px;font-size:13px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,SunSans-Regular,sans-serif"><b>(IIa)</b> </span><i style="line-height:18px;font-size:13px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,SunSans-Regular,sans-serif">Deposit must be in the fundee's <a href="http://roar.eprints.org/" style="color:rgb(64,120,177)" target="_blank">institutional repository</a></i><span style="line-height:18px;font-size:13px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,SunSans-Regular,sans-serif">.</span></div>
</blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="line-height:18px;font-size:13px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,SunSans-Regular,sans-serif"> (This makes each UK institution responsible for monitoring and verifying timely compliance.) </span></div>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="line-height:18px;font-size:13px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,SunSans-Regular,sans-serif"><b>(IIb)</b> </span><i style="line-height:18px;font-size:13px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,SunSans-Regular,sans-serif">All articles must be deposited <a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html" style="color:rgb(64,120,177)" target="_blank">immediately</a> upon acceptance for publication</i><span style="line-height:18px;font-size:13px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,SunSans-Regular,sans-serif">. </span></div>
</blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="line-height:18px;font-size:13px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,SunSans-Regular,sans-serif">(Publisher embargoes apply only to the date on which the deposit is made OA.) </span></div>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><font face="Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px"><b>(IIc)</b> </span></font><i style="line-height:18px;font-size:13px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,SunSans-Regular,sans-serif">Repository deposit must be designated the <a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/864-Integrating-Institutional-and-Funder-Open-Access-Mandates-Belgian-Model.html" style="color:rgb(64,120,177)" target="_blank">sole mechanism</a> for submitting publications for UK research assessment (<a href="http://www.eprints.org/ref2014/" style="color:rgb(64,120,177)" target="_blank">REF</a>) with articles' deposit URL required in all requests for RCUK funding or renewal.</i></div>
</blockquote><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px">It is still widely hoped that RCUK will act in a flexible, constructive way rather than a rigid, dogmatic one, in the face of the growing expression of the concerns of the research community and its OA advocates, in the UK and worldwide, about the new RCUK OA Policy.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px">Stevan Harnad</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px"><br>
</span></font></div><div><center style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><a href="http://www.soros.org/openaccess/boai-10-recommendations" style="color:rgb(0,51,102)">BOAI-10 RECOMMENDATIONS</a></b><i></i></center>
<blockquote style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><i>-- 1.1. Every institution of higher education should have a policy assuring that peer-reviewed versions of all future scholarly articles by faculty members are deposited in the institution’s designated repository...<br>
<br>-- Deposits should be made as early as possible, ideally at the time of acceptance, and no later than the date of formal publication.<br><br>-- University policies <u>should respect faculty freedom to submit new work to the journals of their choice</u>. [emphasis added]<br>
<br>-- University policies <u>should encourage but not require publication in OA journals</u> [emphasis added] ...<br><br>-- 1.3. Every research funding agency, public or private, should have a policy assuring that peer-reviewed versions of all future scholarly articles reporting funded research are deposited in a suitable repository and made OA as soon as practicable.<br>
<br>-- Deposits should be made as early as possible, ideally at the time of acceptance, and no later than the date of formal publication...</i></blockquote></div><div><br></div>