[GOAL] Blog about the new narrative: open access is 'restricting choice of publication'

[Danny Kingsley]

<Apologies for cross posting>

Hi all,

The latest blog on Unlocking Research is The ‘restricting choice of publication’ threat<https://unlockingresearch-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=1897> - 13 March 2018

A taster:

When you work in the open access space, language matters. It is very easy to distract the academic community from the actual discussion at hand and we are seeing an example of this right now. The emerging narrative seems to be that open access policies, and specifically the UK Scholarly Communication Licence<http://ukscl.ac.uk/> (UKSCL), are going to threaten academics’ ability to choose where they publish.

The UK-SCL Policy Summary<http://ukscl.ac.uk/policy-summary> is explicitly “an open access policy mechanism which ensures researchers can retain re-use rights in their own work, they retain copyright and they retain the freedom to publish in the journal of their choice (assigning copyright to the publisher if necessary)”.

Let’s keep that in mind when considering the following examples of the ‘restricting choice of publication’ argument that have crossed my path recently.
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I’m sure discussion will ensue.

Danny

Dr Danny Kingsley
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