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</b></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><b>CARROT & STICK NEEDED FOR GREEN OPEN ACCESS</b></div></b></span><div style="text-align:center">comment on </div><div style="text-align:center">"<a href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=422001&c=1">Carat and stick: no hard targets for gold open access</a>" </div>
<div style="text-align:center">(Paul Jump, <i>Times Higher, </i>2 Dec 2012)</div><div><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><br></div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">RCUK is increasingly confirming that it is sleep-walking ("<a href="http://www.acss.org.uk/docs/Open%20Access%20event%20Nov%202012/OAWorkshop.htm">Implementing Finch</a>" Academy of Social Sciences, 29-30 Nov 2012</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;text-align:left">). </span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">All this talk about how to spend the Gold OA money, how much there is of it, how it is to be monitored -- but <i>not a word about how cost-free Green OA is to be monitored</i>.</span></div>
<div><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">And now a leisurely 5 years in which to discover what a big, unnecessary mistake RCUK is making if it does not <a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september12/harnad/09harnad.html">shore up its Green OA mandate</a> (for which there has already been a 5-year "acculturation" period). The <a href="http://vimeo.com/53696882">rest of the world</a> -- focussed on doing just that -- will meanwhile leave the UK far behind in its wake if RCUK does not wake up.</span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Attention <a href="http://9wZW4gYWNjZXNzIg&qesig=A4iFBWeF9xNT4eBk-GwK4w&pkc=AFgZ2tl46g7kfLsTmoxOsKQ4wHKrgIWvwOwrq6nzR3TchGBABbZapItEHRcarIHlCS0uu_GEUVzCC1z06irrf_qQI5BAKD_3Tw&pq=kell%20lead%20rcuk%20openaccess&cp=28&gs_id=3p&xhr=t&q=kell+lead+rcuk+%22open+access%22&pf=p&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&oq=kell+lead+rcuk+%22open+access%22&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=60c64a7dcd180e02&bpcl=39314241&biw=1060&bih=768">Douglass Kell</a> & <a href="http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&lr=&q=harnad%20OR%20Harnad%20OR%20archivangelism+blogurl:http://openaccess.eprints.org/&ie=UTF-8&tbm=blg&tbs=qdr:m&num=100&c2coff=1&safe=active#q=thorley+blogurl:http://openaccess.eprints.org/&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=active&tbo=d&tbm=blg&tbas=0&source=lnt&sa=X&ei=IN66UIXvG6je0gG7iIHoDg&ved=0CBoQpwUoAA&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=35167f32fa20ab05&bpcl=39314241&biw=1060&bih=768">Mark Thorley</a>)</span></div>
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<b>"<a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/07/04/why-the-uk-should-not-heed-the-finch-report/">Why the UK Should Not Heed the Finch Report</a>"</b></div><div><div style="text-align:center"><b><br>
</b></div><div style="text-align:center"><b>"<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.8174">Testing the Finch Hypothesis</a>"</b></div><div style="text-align:center"><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align:center"><b>"<a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/342647/">How and Why RCUK Open Access Policy Needs Revision</a>"</b></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align:center"><div><b>"<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>"</b></div>
</div><div style="text-align:center"><b><br></b></div></div><div><div style="text-align:center"><b>"<a href="http://www.cfses.com/projects/Going%20for%20Gold%20-%20Comment%20and%20Clarification%20(Houghton%20and%20Swan).pdf">Planting the green seeds for a golden harvest</a>"</b></div>
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