[GOAL] The UK OA Situation

[Stevan Harnad]

**Cross-Posted**

Here are 12 recent writings on the new Finch/RCUK OA Policy recommendations
in the UK. The latest has just appeared in D-Lib:

Harnad, S (2012) United Kingdom's Open Access Policy Urgently Needs a
Tweak<http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september12/harnad/09harnad.html>
.* D-Lib Magazine* Volume 18, Number 9/10 September/October 2012

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september12/harnad/09harnad.html

I wouldn't be giving it all this time and attention if I didn't think the
potential perverse effects of the policy, if uncorrected, were so
pernicious for OA worldwide.

The flaw in the policy is easily fixed, but it does need to be fixed -- and
promptly, and prominently -- before it has the chance to do the damage it
is poised to do.

(Other OA advocates have also raised their voices for the requisite
revision, including Peter
Suber<https://plus.google.com/109377556796183035206/posts/BftzqGjScc1?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20GPeterSuber%20(G%2BFeed%20of%20Peter%20Suber)>
, Alma Swan<http://poynder.blogspot.ca/2012/09/budapest-open-access-initiative.html>,
& Fred Friend<http://www.friendofopenaccess.org.uk/index.php/uk-open-access-stakeholders-post-finch>.
Please make your voices heard too.)

------

Gargouri, Y, Lariviere, V, Gingras, Y, Carr, L and Harnad, S (2012) Green
and Gold Open Access Percentages and Growth, by Discipline. In: *17th
International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators (STI*), 5-8
September, 2012, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Montrel.

 http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/340294/


Harnad, S (2012) Why the UK Should Not Heed the Finch Report. *LSE Impact
of Social Sciences Blog*, Summer Issue

 http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/341128/


Harnad, S (2012) Hybrid gold open access and the Chesire cat’s grin: How to
repair the new open access policy of
RCUK<http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/09/03/hybrid-open-access-repair-rcuk/>.
*LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog* September Issue

http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/342582/

Harnad, S (2012) There's no justifying RCUK's support for [hybrid] gold
open access<http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/sep/03/rcuk-gold-open-access-research-unjustified?newsfeed=true>.
*Guardian HE Network*.

http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/342581/

Harnad, S (2012) The Optimal and Inevitable outcome for Research in the
Online Age<http://www.cilip.org.uk/publications/update-magazine/pages/default.aspx>.
*CILIP Update* September 2012

http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/342580/

Harnad, S (2102) Digital Research: How and Why the RCUK Open Access Policy
Needs to Be Revised<http://digital-research.oerc.ox.ac.uk/programme/tues-am-keynote>.
*Digital Research 2012*. Tuesday, September 12, Oxford.


Harnad, Stevan (2012) Research Works Act H.R.3699: The Private Publishing
Tail Trying To Wag The Public Research Dog, Yet Again. Technical Report,
ECS, University of Southampton http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/273093/


Harnad, S. (2012) The UK's 6% Factor and the "Gold Trumps Green" Principle:
Perverse Effects. Open Access Archivangelism.

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/933-.html


Harnad, S. (2102) RCUK Policy In Direct Contradiction With BOAI-10
Recommendations for Institutions. *Open Access Archivangelism *

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/932-.html


Harnad, S. (2012) Simple 9-Word Strike-Out Tweak to Fix RCUK Open Access
Mandate. *Open Access Archivangelism*

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/930-.html


Harnad, S. (2012) Finch Fiasco in Figures. *Open Access Archivangelism*

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/905-.html
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/attachments/20120915/de5aa052/attachment.html