[GOAL] Open Access Mandates & deposit opportunities

[P Burnhill]

maybe this is the time to add the reminder about opendepot.org as this has 
two functions:

1. it can re-direct a (potential) depositor to the IR at their institution
2. it can provide means of OA availability for those without.

'Put it in the Depot' is good and simple advice whatever:

opendepot.org

Peter

PS And it is available to harvest - by anyone but also including managers 
of IRs.



On Sun, 20 May 2012, Andrew A. Adams wrote:

>> Stevan,  Andrew,
>>
>> a) an IR has to exit and that is often not the case. And if an IR exists it is often not used, mandate or not. Here some central disciplinary respositories are much more successfull as PMC/UKPMC.
>
> But what of those fields (and there are many) not served by disciplinary
> repositories? Are the academics in those to be ignored? Where are they to
> deposit, where are they to find OA versions of papers? Mandate IR deposit as
> part of funding requirements and the institutions will create a repository.
> It's not expensive, certainly less expensive than much of the other
> requirements that funding bodies place administratively on institutions, in
> my experience.
>
>> b) We believe that OA is better supported by the Gold road and therefore a change of the business model is needed. That means costs should be covered by APCs or institutions or mixed models.
>
> Gold is slow, far from certain and almost certainly at least as expensive as
> the current situation. You are at the mercy of publishers who have shown
> themselves to be shameless and rapacious in extracting every last cent out of
> their hegemony in subscription-based publishing. Without the counterbalance
> of Green, Gold will be delayed, piecemeal and very very expensive. WIth the
> counterbalance of Green, Gold can be pushed through much more quickly. YOu
> say "we believe". Please provide a rational argument for that belief. Stevan
> has published a rational argument for why Green now Gold later is a sensible
> route, and has demonstrated the mechanisms towards that route (funder
> mandates for IR deposit on an ID/OA basis, institutional mandates for IR
> deposit on an OA basis, near-100% Green OA allowing a real negotiation with
> publishers for them to provide their actual value-added services at sensible
> profit margins, paid for by the now-feasible subscription cancellations).
>
>
>
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> Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
> Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
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