[GOAL] Chemistry and the Green Door

[Stevan Harnad]

Sorry, part of my reply was about VCs below, not chemists! My reply about chemists should have been this:

It is not chemists that oppose self-archiving, it's their publishers! (I've long predicted that as publishers go green, the last one out and shutting the door behind them will be the American Chemical Society!) 

But don't despair, Peter, the other disciplines are leading the way, and, as you will see if you look and count, chemists (even senior ones!) are already self-archiving, especially when their institutions or funders have effective Green OA mandates, like U. Liege's and FNRS's, with ID/OA and the Button to moot any say that their publishers have in the matter...

See:
http://blogs.nature.com/news/files/openaccessplos.jpg
and 
http://openaccess.eprints.org/uploads/GreenGold11.png

Stevan Harnad

On 2012-07-12, at 6:11 PM, Stevan Harnad wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> There is no way in my or your liftetime that senior chemists will self-archive. And that goes for many other disciplines. What are the VCs going to do? Sack them ? they bring in grant money?
> 
> No: draw their attention to the financial benefits, as Alma Swan & John Houghton have been doing, for Green and Gold OA:
> http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/610/2/Modelling_Gold_Open_Access_for_institutions_-_final_draft3.pdf

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