[GOAL] Finch on BIS on Learned Societies

[Stevan Harnad]

In response to the BIS Select Committee Report Dame Janet
Finch<http://www.researchinfonet.org/finch-report-response-to-select-committe/>
 writes:

*Dame Janet Finch:* *"There are some unfortunate gaps in the Select
Committee’s consideration. In particular their comments on the publishing
industry take no account of a [sic] Learned Societies, whose publishing and
other roles have been a major concern of our working group."*

The substantive recommendations of the 2013 BIS Report
(I<http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmbis/99/9902.htm>
, II<http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmbis/99/99vw01.htm>)
were:

*1. *that the Green OA deposit in the institutional
repository<http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html>
should
be *immediate<http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html>
* rather than delayed, whether or not Open Access to the deposit is
embargoed by the publisher (during any OA embargo the repository's
eprint-request
Button <https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/notices/publicnotices.php?notice=902>
can
then enable the author to fulfill individual user eprint requests
automatically with one click each *if deposit was immediate*),whether or
not Open Access to the deposit is embargoed by the publisher,

*2.* that an effective mechanism for monitoring and ensuring timely mandate
compliance <http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/342647/> should be implemented, and

*3.* that Gold OA
publishing<http://poynder.blogspot.ca/2013/07/where-are-we-what-still-needs-to-be.html>
should
either no longer be preferred or hybrid Gold should no longer be funded.

It is not at all clear how this amounts to *"tak[ing] no account of a [sic]
Learned Societies, whose publishing and other roles have been a major
concern of our working group."*

The Report does recommend shorter limits on the maximum allowable publisher
embargo on OA, but that has no bearing whatsoever on the substantive
recommendations above, which refer to the mandatory date of deposit, not to
the date on which the deposit is made OA.
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