[GOAL] Re: [BOAI] Re: Harnad Comments on Proposed HEFCE/REF Green Open Access Mandate

[Nick Thieberger]

Steven,

Our example is of a small OA journal, now in its seventh year. We have
pioneered publishing primary language material to accompany linguistic
articles and locate all our collection in a DSpace repository with handles.
Our funding is scraped together and covers student GAships for copy-editing
and page layout of articles. Our reach is excellent and can always be
improved, but we use download statistics to emulate an impact factor. In
your model, author download statistics will be split between the OA
journal's site and the home institution's repository. My University
repository allows us to have a full citation that points to the OA article
in the originating journal's repository and that would seem to be a good
outcome for both your mandating institution and the struggling OA journal
that needs to justify itself to its funders. I'm sorry that you think that
an OA journal that is doing its best to keep producing free OA output is
acting as a publisher with a 'publishers' importunate nonsense'.

Nick Thieberger


On 15 March 2013 08:00, Stevan Harnad <harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> On 2013-03-14, at 1:13 AM, Nick Thieberger <thien at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
> But what if the article is in an OA journal that would like to have the
> hit count for
>
> downloads from its site? Is there scope for the mandate to cover only
> non-OA
>
> journal articles perhaps?
>
>
> That would be an exceedingly bad solution, for authors, for their
> institutions
> for their research and for OA.
>
> And institutions would lose a simple, natural, powerful and uniform way to
> monitor
> mandate compliance by their authors.
>
> And what's more important: hit/download counts for authors, for their own
> articles,
> and for their institutions, or hit/download counts for publishers' sites?
>
> But in any case there's a simple (though silly) compromise:
>
> All articles (whether subscription or Gold, emargoed or not) must be
> immediately
> deposited in the author's institutional repository.
>
> Where the author either wishes to comply with a non-OA publisher's embargo
> on Green OA, or with a Gold-OA publisher's desire to have hit/download
> counts
> for its site, access to the deposit need not be made OA (until the embargo
> elapses or until the author tires of accommodating publishers' importunate
> nonsense).
>
> Stevan Harnad
>
>
> Nick Thieberger
> Editor
> Language Documentation & Conservation Journal
> http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/
>
>
> On 14 March 2013 11:16, Stevan Harnad <amsciforum at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Full Text: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/994-.html
>>
>> *Executive Summary:* *The proposed HEFCE/REF Open Access [OA] mandate<http://www.hefce.ac.uk/media/hefce/content/news/news/2013/open_access_letter.pdf> --
>> that in order to be eligible for REF, the peer-reviewed final draft of all
>> journal articles must be deposited in the author’s institutional repository
>> immediately upon publication, with embargoes applicable only to the date at
>> which the article must be made OA – is excellent, and provides exactly
>> the sort of complement required by the RCUK OA mandate. It ensures that
>> authors deposit immediately and institutionally and it recruits their
>> institutions to monitor and ensure compliance.
>>       For journal articles, no individual or disciplinary exceptions or
>> exemptions to the immediate-deposit are needed, but embargo length can be
>> adapted to the discipline or even to exceptional individual cases.
>>       Embargo length is even more important for open data, and should be
>> carefully and flexibly adapted to the needs not only of disciplines and
>> individuals, but of each individual research project.
>>       Requiring monograph OA if the author does not wish to provide it is
>> not reasonable, but perhaps many or most monograph authors would not mind
>> depositing their texts as Closed Access.*
>>
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