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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Director of UCL
Library Services Paul Ayris on the Finch Report.</span><span
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Some quotes:<br>
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"The <a href="http://www.researchinfonet.org/publish/finch/">Finch
Report</a>, which
was recently published in the UK, has
caused a storm of comment, even controversy. Responses have been
lined up
behind the barricades of either Green or Gold Open Access (OA),
and predictions
have been made about the destruction of the UK publishing
industry."<br>
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"</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height:
115%;">Where does the Finch view sit in a global OA
world? A new report by John Houghton and Alma Swan, financed by
the JISC and to
be published imminently, takes a different look at the OA debate."<br>
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"</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height:
115%;">Their analysis tells us a lot about the difficulties of
transition to a
fully OA environment. Their conclusion is that, for universities,
at the
present time the most cost effective route is for a University to
opt for Green
OA. Should the whole world turn OA, then their modelling supports
Finch, in
that the biggest saving for a University would come from Gold
(Chart 23 in the
forthcoming Report)."<br>
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"</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height:
115%;">Another
recent publication, which also acknowledges the difficulties of
transition, is
the <a
href="http://www.leru.org/files/publications/LERU_AP8_Open_Access.pdf">LERU
Roadmap
Towards Open Access</a>. This document was published in June
2011 by
the League of European Research Universities as an Advice paper
for its members,
and indeed for all European Universities."<br>
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"</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height:
115%;">The Finch Report is therefore an important marker
on the road to OA, but in itself it is not the whole story."</span>
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