[GOAL] Re: Keynote on Open Access at Digital Research 2012, Oxford September 11

[Stevan Harnad]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Jon Crowcroft  jon.crowcroft -- cl.cam.ac.uk
> Date: August 4, 2012 2:34:28 AM EDT
> 
>> I agree 100%
> 
> On Friday, August 3, 2012, Stevan Harnad <harnad at ecs.soton.ac.ukwrote:
>  
> On 2012-08-03, at 7:33 AM, Jon Crowcroft wrote:
>  
>>  while I support the intention, for many of us who publsh with ACM and
>>  IEEE, we have been allowed to put open access copies in our own
>>  repositories for ages- but keep up the pressure on the "pay for
>>  publish" idea as its a) iniqutious rifling of the public purse and b)
>>  priced ludicrously high in any case...
>  
> Why "but"? It sounds like you mean "and"!
>  
> On no account should UK research funds be redirected to paying publishers
> extra for "hybrid" Gold OA whilst they are already being paid more than
> enough via subscriptions.
>  
> And yes, all the ACM and IEEE journals are on the "side of the angels,"
> being among the 60% of journals that already recognize the author's right
> to provide un-embargoed open access to the author's refereed final draft
> immediately upon acceptance for publication ("Green OA").
>  
> The 40% of journals that still try to embargo Green OA, however, are no
> longer the biggest problem.
>  
> The biggest problem in the UK has very recently become the recommendations
> of the Finch Committee, commissioned and accepted by the Science/Universities
> Minister David Willets, recommending the phase-out of cost-free Green OA,
> downgraded to digital preservation archiving, and instead mandating OA exclusively
> via "Gold" OA publishing, through extra payment out of the UK's scarce research
> funds.
>  
> To compound this folly, RCUK, which formerly had a Green OA self-archiving mandate
> that had served as a model for the rest of the world, now proposes to mandate that
> UK fundees may only publish in journals that either offer Gold OA or allow Green OA
> (with a maximum embargo of 6-12 months), and if the journal offers Gold OA, fundees
> must chose paid Gold OA over cost-free Green OA.
>  
> (May I post this reply to the cphc list?)
>  
> Stevan Harnad
> 
>  Stevan Harnad typed:
> 
> 
>  On 2012-08-01, at 10:42 AM, David De Roure wrote:
> 
> Hi Stevan - I confirm that this talk has been scheduled for Tuesday =
>  September 11th.
> The Digital Research 2012 website is =
> http://digital-research.oerc.ox.ac.uk/=20
> 
>  Dear Dave,
> 
>  Thanks, here's my the title and abstract for my DR2102 keynote. (Can I =
>  assume that the time will be Tuesday morning 9-10:30?)
> 
>  Best wishes,
> 
>  Stevan
> 
> 
>  Digital Research: How and Why the RCUK Open Access Policy Needs to Be =
>  Revised
> 
>  The Web is destined to become humankind's Cognitive Commons, where =
>  digital knowledge is jointly created and freely shared. The UK has been =
>  a leader in the global movement toward Open Access (OA) to research but =
>  very recently its leadership has been derailed by the joint influence of =
>  the publishing industry lobby from without and well-intentioned but =
>  premature and counterproductive over-reaching from within the OA =
>  movement itself. The result has been the extremely counter-productive =
>  Finch Committee Report followed by a new draft of the RCUK OA policy, =
>  downgrading the role of cost-free OA self-archiving of research =
>  publications ("Green OA") in favour of paying subscription publishers =
>  extra money, over and above subscriptions, out of scarce research funds, =
>  in exchange for making single articles OA ("hybrid Gold OA"). The =
>  motivation is to reform publication and to gain certain re-use rights, =
>  but the likely effect will be researcher resistance, very little OA, a =
>  waste of scarce research funds and the loss of the UK's global =
>  leadership in the OA movement. There is still time to fix the RCUK =
>  policy. I will try to describe how and why.
> 
>  Berners-Lee, T., De Roure, D., Harnad, S. and Shadbolt, N. (2005) =
>  Journal publishing and author self-archiving: Peaceful Co-Existence and =
>  Fruitful Collaboration.=20
>  =09
>  =E2=80=A8Shadbolt, N., Brody, T., Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2006) The =
>  Open Research Web: A Preview of the Optimal and the Inevitable, in =
>  Jacobs, N., Ed. Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic =
>  Aspects Chandos.=20
> 
>  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=20
> 
>  Harnad, Stevan (2012) Why the UK Should Not Heed the Finch Report. LSE =
>  Impact of Social Sciences Blog, Summer Issue=20
> 
>  Poynder, Richard (2012) OA advocate Stevan Harnad withdraws support for =
>  RCUK policy. Open and Shut July 26 2012=20

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