[GOAL] The Finch Report: UCL's David Price Responds

[Richard Poynder]

An interview with the Vice-Provost (Research) at University College London,
Professor David Price. 

Some quotes:

"Economic modelling shows that, for research universities, the Green route
to OA is more cost effective than the Gold. Under Gold Research Councils and
Universities will have to find millions of pounds in existing budgets to
fund OA charges. That means that some things will have to stop to make the
necessary monies available."

"The Finch recommendations are not good news for the Humanities, whose unit
of publication is characteristically the research monograph. Who will
publish Gold OA monographs, and who will pay for them?"

"The result of the Finch recommendations would be to cripple university
systems with extra expense. Finch is certainly a cure to the problem of
access, but is it not a cure which is actually worse than the disease?"

"What Finch should have done is to model Green and Gold together, to see
which works out cheaper. A forthcoming report from the JISC's Open Access
Implementation Group on the impact of APC charges on universities does this
- and comes up with a different scenario to Finch."

David Price's message to UK Minister for Universities and Science David
Willetts: "Listen to UCL's response to Finch and carry on talking to get the
best transitional model from where we are now to a fully OA world. The Finch
recommendations are only part of the answer."

More here:
http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/finch-report-ucls-david-price-responds
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