[GOAL] Re: license questions: RCUK review

[Andrew A. Adams]

Dr D.A. Kingsley wrote: 
> 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.

I think the commercial publishers of scholarly work won't be satisfied until 
they have the same proportion of research funding flowing into their coffers 
that the music recording industry sees as a proportion of money flowing in 
music.


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Professor Andrew A. Adams     アダムス アンドリュー 
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
aaa at meiji.ac.jp