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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>An interview with Keith Jeffery, Director of IT and International Strategy at the UK Science & Technology Facilities Council, and a special “expert” member of the research outputs committee of Research Councils UK (RCUK).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>Some quotes below.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>*** On Gold OA:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>“My arguments against Gold relate predominantly to its cost, coverage, access, and the way it encourages vanity publishing.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>*** On the costs of Gold OA:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>“[F]or any reasonably productive research institution the cost of Gold is ~3 times that of Green … Assuming budgets are constant, this reduces the capacity for a research institution to generate and distribute its scholarly output. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>“[W]ith the transition to Gold from conventional subscription-based scholarly publishing the commercial publishers will extract from the public research budget twice; first from the ‘indirect’ budget that already pays for subscriptions, second from the direct budget in order to pay the costs of APCs. This is likely to reduce the direct budget — which funds research activity in the universities — by something like 4%, with this money going straight to the publishers. 4% of the UK Research Council funding of ~£3 billion is a considerable amount of money.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>*** On Hybrid OA:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>“Hybrid is based on the principle that paying for visibility (publisher-provided OA) for your article through a kind of APC increases its impact, and it is postulated on the claim that publishers will reduce their subscription costs as their revenues from Hybrid fees increase. In fact, I believe only two publishers running this model have reduced subscription costs. The Wellcome trust alerted the community to the danger of paying twice with the hybrid model in 2009.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>*** On Green OA:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>“Green offers the best route to achieve what the public, the innovators, the scholars and the research managers (funders and universities) require because it is most effective, least costly and has only two barriers: the commercial aspirations of publishers, who generate FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) among academics over rights, refusals to publish, litigation etc., and the consequent ‘Zeno’s Paralysis’ — as Stevan Harnad aptly describes it — that afflicts researchers. This prevents authors undertaking the few keystrokes required to achieve universal OA.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>*** On the Finch Report:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>I believe the Finch report is driving scholarly communication into an expensive cul-de-sac without any vision of future models of scholarly communication. From the business model point of view, it is anachronistic: users are not charged for Facebook or Google. From the utility point of view, it is backward looking: it leads to publisher silos instead of an interconnected high quality retrieval environment — one that when linked to CERIF-CRIS means that the whole context of research output is understood. From the value for the public purse point of view, it is also a backward step, as I indicated when talking about the cost of Gold.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>*** On the future costs of OA:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>(a) I believe the transition will be long and costly, with double payments being made to publishers — first, through indirect payments for subscriptions; second, through payments for APCs, which will come directly from research funds; </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>(b) I believe the costs of Gold will be greater than the current subscription model: first, based on an extrapolation from the currently announced APCs; and second, because the experience of publisher subscription increases leads one to believe they will do the same with Gold once they have obtained a near-monopoly in the new environment.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>More here: <a href="http://poynder.blogspot.fr/2012/07/oa-interviews-keith-jeffery-uk-science.html">http://poynder.blogspot.fr/2012/07/oa-interviews-keith-jeffery-uk-science.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>