[GOAL] The Finch Report in a global Open Access landscape

[Richard Poynder]

Director of UCL Library Services Paul Ayris on the Finch Report.

Some quotes:

"The Finch Report <http://www.researchinfonet.org/publish/finch/>, which 
was  recently published in the UK, has caused a storm of comment, even 
controversy. Responses have been lined up behind the barricades of 
either Green or Gold Open Access (OA), and predictions have been made 
about the destruction of the UK publishing industry."

"Where does the Finch view sit in a global OA world? A new report by 
John Houghton and Alma Swan, financed by the JISC and to be published 
imminently, takes a different look at the OA debate."

"Their analysis tells us a lot about the difficulties of transition to a 
fully OA environment. Their conclusion is that, for universities, at the 
present time the most cost effective route is for a University to opt 
for Green OA. Should the whole world turn OA, then their modelling 
supports Finch, in that the biggest saving for a University would come 
from Gold (Chart 23 in the forthcoming Report)."

"Another recent publication, which also acknowledges the difficulties of 
transition, is the LERU Roadmap Towards Open Access 
<http://www.leru.org/files/publications/LERU_AP8_Open_Access.pdf>. This 
document was published in June 2011 by the League of European Research 
Universities as an Advice paper for its members, and indeed for all 
European Universities."

"The Finch Report is therefore an important marker on the road to OA, 
but in itself it is not the whole story."
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