[GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] Blog: Could the HEFCE policy be a Trojan Horse for gold OA?

[Stevan Harnad]

PS

5. Stress cultivating the habit of self-deposit rather than proxy deposit.

6. Reward with regularly published and updated impact statistics
(downloads, citations, etc.) in the institutional repository


On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Stevan Harnad <amsciforum at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Danny Kingsley <dak45 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> <Apologies for cross positing>
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> A new Unlocking Research blog published today “ Could the HEFCE policy
>> be a Trojan Horse for gold OA?” -
>> https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=488 is arguing that
>> changes to the HEFCE policy are moving it from a green policy towards a
>> gold one.
>>
>
> *Defending Green Turf*
>
> There's no second-guessing human nature. And it's a no-brainer to guess
> that publishers will do all they can to circumvent the HEFCE/REF
> immediate-Green policy to steer it toward Gold and Hybrid-Gold.
>
> But here are a few defensive strategies that could help:
>
> 1. The authors are the ones who know first when their papers are accepted:
> Implement a database of dated acceptance letters at the departmental level.
>
> 2. Do a REF rank-order exercise (not a "top four" exercise) every year,
> consisting of an author-ranked list of that year's publications, by order
> of likelihood of submitting for REF, together with acceptance date and
> publication date. Store and display that list permanently and publicly in
> the institutional repository as REF count-down, highlighting what risks
> being ineligible. (HEFCE will be accommodating; its goals are the right
> ones, and where temporary flexibility helps guide academic practice and
> culture toward the goal of Green rather than Fool's Gold, they will provide
> it.)
>
> 3. Do a monthly SCOPUS and WoS search for institutional published papers
> and follow up on all missing papers (perhaps at the departmental level
> rather than the library level -- wherever it is more effective).
>
> 4. Provide no funding for Gold or Hybrid-Gold.
>
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> A teaser:
>> **************************
>> The HEFCE Policy for open access in the post-2014 Research Excellence
>> Framework <http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2014/201407/> kicks in 9
>> weeks from now. The policy states that, to be eligible for submission to
>> the post-2014 REF, authors’ final peer-reviewed manuscripts of journal
>> articles and conference proceedings with an ISSN must have been deposited
>> in an institutional or subject repository on acceptance for publication.
>> Deposited material should be discoverable, and free to read and download,
>> for anyone with an internet connection.
>>
>> The *goal* of the policy is to ensure that publicly funded (by HEFCE)
>> research is publicly available. The *means* HEFCE have chosen to favour
>> is the green route – by putting the AAM into a repository. This does not
>> involve any payment to the publishers. The *timing *of the policy – at
>> acceptance – is to give us the best chance of obtaining the author’s
>> accepted manuscript (AAM) before it is deleted, forgotten or lost by the
>> author. <snip>
>>
>> ***************************
>> Enjoy!
>>
>> Danny
>>
>>
>> Dr Danny Kingsley
>> Head of Scholarly Communications
>> Cambridge University Library
>> West Road, Cambridge CB39DR
>> P: +44 (0) 1223 747 437
>> M: +44 (0) 7711 500 564
>> E: dak45 at cam.ac.uk
>> T: @dannykay68
>> ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3636-5939
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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