[GOAL] President of German Alliance of Scientific Organizations Recommends Mandating Green OA

[Stevan Harnad]

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/forschung-und-lehre/urheberrecht-in-der-wissenschaft-fuer-fairness-und-ausgewogenheit-11847247.html


Thanks to Eberhard Hilf for the alert about this.

It's good news, though it would be more helpful if the President directed
his proposal to institutions and funders, to mandate Green OA (ID/OA),
rather than directing it at the "copyright system" or "copyright law"
(which certainly does not care). ID/OA can already be mandated without any
need to revise copyright law.

It's also a mistake to stress embargoes and guarantees for publishers'
current revenue streams. Never mind those.

And never mind copyright law: Just mandate
ID/OA<http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html>
(immediate-deposit
required, immediate Open Access to the deposit recommended, but embargoing
access permitted, as long as all deposits are made, and immediate).

ID/OA moots copyright law, "obeying" it by bypassing it.

The email-eprint-request Button  <http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18511/>will
tide over researcher needs during any embargoes, and universal ID/OA will
ensure the speedy death of all embargoes.

Waiting instead to reform copyright (or publishing) first will not...

Both publishing and copyright law will adapt after ID/OA is universally
adopted, as a natural matter of course.

Stevan Harnad
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