[GOAL] Re: Helmholtz Association supports COPE

[Stevan Harnad]

It is a great strategic mistake -- and a substantial waste of scarce
research funds in exchange for a negligible amount of Open Access -- for an
institution or organization to commit to funding gold open access
publishing charges for articles published in gold open access journals *unless
it first mandates green open access self-archiving of all articles (*regardless
of whether they are published in OA or non-OA journals). (Remember that
Harvard first mandated green OA and only thereafter committed to COPE.)
http://bit.ly/OAhope

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Paul Schultze-Motel <
schultze-motel at gfz-potsdam.de> wrote:
> *** Apologies for cross-posting ***
>
> To facilitate straightforward funding of scientific publications in
> open-access journals, the Helmholtz Association, Germany's largest
> scientific research organisation, is now supporting the Compact for
> Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE) http://www.oacompact.org.
>
> The research centres of the Helmholtz Association have declared their
> support of COPE and their willingness to establish sustainable
> mechanisms for the payment of reasonable open-access publishing fees. It
> is of primary concern to the Helmholtz Association that publishing in
> open-access journals will be as easy for its scientists as in journals
> with conventional financing.
>
> The international initiative COPE has been started by Harvard
> University, the MIT and other leading US universities to advance
> open-access publishing. In October 2011, the Karlsruhe Institute of
> Technology (KIT) has been the first research institution in Germany to
> sign COPE.
>
> For further information see the press release:
> http://tinyurl.com/d3ff2r5
>
>
> --
> Dr. Paul Schultze-Motel
> Helmholtz Open Access Projekt - Koordinationsbüro
> Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam
> Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ
> Bibliothek des Wissenschaftsparks Albert Einstein
> Telegrafenberg
> 14473 Potsdam
> Tel. (0331) 288-1653
> Fax  (0331) 288-1914
> E-Mail schultze-motel at gfz-potsdam.de
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