[GOAL] Re: [sparc-oaforum] Re: RCUK publishes revised guidance on Open Access

[Stevan Harnad]

Thanks for catching the typo Reme: 1+ should have read ... "(despite RCUK's
preference for *Gold*)

Hope it was obvious to readers from context.

Stevan Harnad

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Reme Melero <rmelero at iata.csic.es> wrote:

> **
> Dear Strevan,
>
>
> Are you sure about the first positive point, the policy say s ( it seems
> the preference is for the gold route):
>
>
> (iii) There are various models for achieving open access, some of which
> allow more immediate access. RCUK has a preference for immediate,
> unrestricted, on-line access to peer-reviewed and published scholarly
> research papers, free of any access charge and with the maximum
> opportunities for re-use. *We will be supporting this preference with
> block grants to eligible research organisations in order to fund the
> associated article processing charges (APCs). This is commonly referred to
> as the ‘Gold’ route to Open Access.* Although we have this preference, a
> mixed approach to Open Access is consistent with our policy, and the
> ultimate decision on which model to follow remains at the discretion of the
> researcher and their institution.
>
> Best wishes
> Reme--
>
> Reme Melero
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> IATA
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>
> El 06/03/2013 13:58, Stevan Harnad escribió:
>
> The revised RCUK OA mandate<http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media/news/2013news/Pages/130305.aspx>has some
> *positive* and *negative* points:
>
>   *(+1) It is now clear that the RCUK author is free to choose either
> Green or Gold (despite RCUK's preference for Green). *
>
>  *(-2) No Green compliance-monitoring nor consequences for non-compliance
> (only Gold-uptake-monitoring).  *
> *
> *
> *(-3) Deposit need not be immediate (can wait till end of OA embargo).*
> *
> *
> *(-4) Deposit need not be in institutional repository (hence institutions
> not engaged to monitor and ensure compliance).*
> *
> *
> *(-5) Deposit can be done by **publisher instead of author
> (hence compliance monitoring even more uncertain).*
> *
> *
> *(+6) The proposed HEFCE/REF mandate<http://www.hefce.ac.uk/media/hefce/content/news/news/2013/open_access_letter.pdf>to deposit in institutional repository immediately upon acceptance for
> eligibility for REF, if adopted, will help remedy some of RCUK mandate's
> shortcomings on ensuring compliance.*
> *
> *
>
>  HEFCE/REF is urged to adopt its proposed mandate
>
>  RCUK is urged to further revise its mandate to make it compatible with
> the proposed HEFCE/REF mandate:
>
>  require immediate-deposit
> of the author's refereed final draft
> in the author's institutional repository
> immediately upon acceptance for publication
> regardless of whether or how long open access to the deposit is embargoed
> and regardless of whether the journal is Gold OA or subscription-based
> (institutional deposits can be automatically harvested/imported/exported
> to central repositories)
> (repositories' email-eprint-request Button can facilitate Almost-OA during
> embargoes)
>
>
>  Universities and research institutions as well as other research funders
> are also urged to adopt or modify mandates to require verifiable
> immediate-deposit of all journal articles published by their researchers,
> in all disciplines.
>
>  Once this complementary funder/institutional Green OA mandate model is
> globally adopted, universal OA will soon follow.
>
>  Stevan Harnad
>
>  On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:56 AM, Richard Poynder <
> richard.poynder at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>>  Research Councils UK (RCUK) has today (6 March 2013) published the
>> latest version of its guidance for its revised *Policy on Open Access*,
>> which comes in to effect on 1 April 2013.
>>
>>
>>
>> This latest version draws the policy and the guidance together into one
>> document and aims to give researchers, research organisations as well as
>> publishers further clarity on the implementation of the policy.
>>
>>
>>
>> RCUK is keen to continue to engage with its stakeholders on the
>> development of the guidance, so is inviting organisations to provide
>> further input to this version where aspects may still not be clear. RCUK
>> will then revise the guidance further to take into account these
>> clarifications.
>>
>>
>>
>> More here: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media/news/2013news/Pages/130305.aspx
>>
>>
>>
>> The document is available (as a pdf file) here:
>> http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/documents/documents/RCUKOpenAccessPolicyandRevisedguidance.pdf
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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