[GOAL] Re: Agreement on Green OA not needed from publishers but from institutions and funders

[Jan Velterop]

I wrote more than what you quote here. Where's that gone?

Jan

On 20 Jun 2012, at 09:56, Stevan Harnad wrote:

> 
> On 2012-06-20, at 3:39 AM, Jan Velterop wrote:
> 
>> There is *no* price competition for subscriptions. That is part of the problem. There *is* for 'gold' OA. 
>> And price competition is an issue ever since the argument that "'green' is cheaper" crept into the discussion....
>> 
>> I don't think characterising the Finch Committee as gullible is doing the cause of open access any good.
> 
> 1. The cause of Open Access is *access*, now, not price competition.
> 
> 2. Persuading the world it's otherwise is not doing the cause of Open Access any  good.
> 
> Mandating Green, globally, is the way to provide Open Access, now.
> 
> Recommending instead yet another 10-year plan that would throw 50-60 million extra pounds 
> a year at Gold instead of mandating Green, cost-free, is sending both the UK and the rest of the 
> world on a fool's errand.
> 
> Praise is hardly in order.
> 
> Stevan Harnad
> 
> P.S. What's needed is not publishers' agreement on anything. What's needed is institutions'
> and funders' agreement on mandating Green OA (ID/OA).
> 
> 
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