[GOAL] Re: license questions

[Jean-Claude Guédon]

Just a couple of comments:

RCUK's present policy does not cover the full range covered by the term
"Gold", only APC-Gold. Let me remind everyone once more that Gold is
agnostic as to business plan. It only describes open-access journals
with all the qualities of open access.

Green does not equate with "delayed public archiving of manuscripts". A
good Green mandate actually requires immediate deposit upon acceptance.
Now, it may be that the deposited manuscript cannot be made immediately
publicly accessible because of embargoes or interdictions to expose
articles variously made by some publishers; however, the presence of a
request button allows a very simple and direct contact between any
individual requesting the article and the corresponding author of the
article, the process then taking place as private correspondence.

Otherwise, the prognostications made by Dana Roth about a new
government, etc., if true, would be most welcome indeed. The UK has put
itself in a very silly situation with regard to Open Access.


-- 

Jean-Claude Guédon
Professeur titulaire
Littérature comparée
Université de Montréal



Le jeudi 09 avril 2015 à 19:58 +0000, Dana Roth a écrit :

> This from a recent item in Nature ...
> 
> "RCUK says that the licence problem is compounded by researchers not
> understanding which licence they need to use to comply with the
> open-access policy, and by publishers offering a range of ‘open’
> licences. (Since January, all 18 open-access journals owned by Nature
> Publishing Group have switched to using the fully liberal CC-BY 4.0
> licence as a default, and to charging a flat fee.)"
> 
> ---
> 
> "The RCUK review did not have the remit to question whether RCUK
> should continue to hand out money for gold open-access publishing. But
> with a new UK government in the offing and the country looking
> increasingly isolated in its gold-leaning stance, there must be a
> concern that the agency might end up scrapping its gold preference.
> Last year, four influential UK university-funding bodies announced a
> green open-access policy that will further steer academics towards
> delayed public archiving of manuscripts."
> 
> More at:
> http://www.nature.com/news/all-that-glitters-1.17266?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20150409 
> 
> Dana L. Roth
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