[GOAL] Re: OA Ideology vs. OA Pragmatics

[Jan Velterop]

Eric,

Why the second sentence? As long as they require OA, do we care how they spend – or waste – their money? (Except as tax payers, perhaps, but the access issue isn't the financial issue. Conflation of the two has stymied progress in my view. Just as dirigiste solutions have.)

Jan


On 1 May 2012, at 19:16, Eric F. Van de Velde wrote:

> How about the following:
> 
> "Because Open Access (OA) maximises research usage, impact and progress, funders and institutions must require that all researchers provide OA to their published research results. Institutions and their libraries will phase out all electronic journal subscriptions by May 1st, 2015 and invest in OA initiatives instead."
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> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Jan Velterop <velterop at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would simplify it further:
> 
> "Because Open Access (OA) maximises research usage, impact and progress, funders and institutions must require that all researchers provide OA to their published research results."
> 
> Any form of dirigisme as to how this is to be achieved is best avoided. Avoiding prescriptions for the means helps keep the focus on the goal and also leaves the door open for imaginative ways of convincing researchers, funders and institutions, and even of achieving more OA in possibly more effective ways.
> 
> I support this.  A simple sentence powerful and this probably has what we want - like all sentences this may need slight crafting.
> 
> The reality of the present situation is that we seem to need a mix of strategies. What works for one discipline may not work for another. Things have changed over the last 10 years and we need to look for changing methods, changing finances and changing allies.
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