[GOAL] Re: license questions: RCUK review

[Dr D.A. Kingsley]

Thanks Dana,

My blog on this review:
A review of the RCUK review of implementation of its OA policy
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=87

A snippet:
Despite this large amount of money being spent on APCs, publishers 
offering hybrid – not the fully open access publishers, it should be 
noted – ’questioned’ level of the block grant currently offered by RCUK. 
These publishers expressed the view that the block grant ‘was too low to 
properly fund the transition to gold. Publishers felt that the 
transition to full gold open access publishing would be successful only 
if it was fully funded’ (pp15-16). It does beg the question as to what 
‘fully funded’ means in this context.

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> From: Dana Roth <dzrlib at library.caltech.edu>
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> This from a recent item in Nature ...
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> "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.)"
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> "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
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