[GOAL] Harnad Follow-Up Comments to BIS Select Committee on Open Access

[Stevan Harnad]

Full text: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1004-.html

The only barrier separating the UK and the rest of the world from Open
Access (OA) to its refereed research journal article output in the online
era is keystrokes<http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=harnad+(keystroke+OR+keystrokes)&oq=harnad+(keystroke+OR+keystrokes)&gs_l=hp.3...129.12737.1.13925.28.24.4.0.0.0.261.2327.16j6j2.24.0...1.0...1c.1.11.psy-ab.5r2SGSMf-H8&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45645796,d.dmQ&fp=d4e391a70d58b626&biw=1203&bih=768>.
It is important to bear this in mind in considering the following comments.
Once global OA policy has seen to it that those keystrokes are being
universally and systematically executed worldwide, not only OA itself, with
all its resulting benefits for research productivity and progress, but all
the other desiderata sought – the end of Green OA embargoes, a transition
to Gold OA publishing at a fair and sustainable price, CC-BY, text-mining,
open data – will follow as a natural matter of course.

But not if the keystroke barrier is not first surmounted, decisively and
globally.

It is in the interests of surmounting this keystroke barrier to global OA
that this summary strongly supports the institutional-repository
immediate-deposit mandate proposed by
HEFCE/REF<http://www.hefce.ac.uk/whatwedo/rsrch/rinfrastruct/openaccess/>
to
complement and reinforce the RCUK OA
mandate<http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/Pages/outputs.aspx>
.
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