[GOAL] Re: UK Research Councils plan to strengthen OA policy

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Richard Poynder <
ricky at richardpoynder.co.uk> wrote:

>
>
> The UK's Research Councils have proposed a revised policy on Open Access
> which further clarifies RCUK's definition of OA and strengthens some of the
> criteria that must be satisfied. In particular, the policy commits to libre
> Open Access as the agreed RCUK definition, ...
>

Please can you clarify what is the RCUK's definition of "OA" and "libre".
I hope that libre means "consistent with BOAI/BBB" or else it is
operationally useless for anything other than human eyeballs. (See Wiley's
definition of "fully open access" - I review this in
http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/03/04/wiley%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cfully-open-access%E2%80%9D-chemistry-open-my-review-if-this-is-%E2%80%9Cgold-oa%E2%80%9D-i-don%E2%80%99t-want-it/)
 For example do the members of this list really believe that this is
"libre"?


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Peter Murray-Rust
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