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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;text-align:center;font:12.0px Arial"><span style="letter-spacing:-1.0px"><b>How and Why the RCUK Open Access Policy Needs to Be Revised</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;text-align:center;font:12.0px Arial"><span style="letter-spacing:-1.0px"><b>Stevan Harnad</b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;text-align:center;font:12.0px Arial"><span style="letter-spacing:-1.0px"> UQaM & U Southampton</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;text-align:center;font:12.0px Arial"><span style="letter-spacing:-1.0px"><a href="http://digital-research.oerc.ox.ac.uk/programme/tues-am-keynote">Keynote Address: Digital Research 2012</a></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;text-align:center;font:12.0px Arial"><span style="letter-spacing:-1.0px">11 September 2012: 9 am - 10:30 am </span></p>
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<blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Arial"><b>Abstract:</b> The Web is destined to become humankind's <a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/271844/1/southampton-curating.pdf">Cognitive Commons</a>, where digital knowledge is jointly created and freely shared. The UK has been a <a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/341776/">leader</a> in the global movement toward Open Access (OA) to research but very recently its leadership has been derailed by the joint influence of the <a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/273093/">publishing industry lobby</a> from without and well-intentioned but <a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/909-.html">premature</a> and counterproductive <a href="http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&lr=&q=harnad%20OR%20Harnad%20OR%20archivangelism+blogurl:http://openaccess.eprints.org/&ie=UTF-8&tbm=blg&tbs=qdr:m&num=100&c2coff=1&safe=active#hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=active&tbm=blg&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22over-reaching%22+OR+%22over-reach%22+blogurl:http%3A%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&oq=%22over-reaching%22+OR+%22over-reach%22+blogurl:http%3A%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&gs_l=serp.3...5686.18230.0.19349.31.31.0.0.0.5.194.3332.19j12.31.0...0.0...1c.4YW7PcORd7Q&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=73ec5a53ea072cda&biw=1258&bih=774">over-reaching</a> from within the OA movement itself.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Arial"> The result has been the extremely counter-productive <a href="http://www.researchinfonet.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Finch-Group-report-FINAL-VERSION.pdf">Finch Committee Report </a>followed by a new draft of the <a href="http://roarmap.eprints.org/671/1/RCUK%20_Policy_on_Access_to_Research_Outputs.pdf">RCUK OA policy</a>, downgrading the role of cost-free OA self-archiving of research publications ("Green OA") in favour of paying subscription publishers extra money, over and above subscriptions, out of scarce research funds, in exchange for making single articles OA ("hybrid Gold OA"). </p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12.0px Arial"> The motivation is to reform publication and to gain certain re-use rights, but the likely effect will be researcher resistance, very little OA, a waste of scarce research funds and the loss of the UK's global leadership in the OA movement. </p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 12.0px 0px;font:12.0px Arial"> There is still time to <a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/923-.html">fix the RCUK policy</a>. I will try to describe how and why.</p></blockquote>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">Berners-Lee, T., De Roure, D., Harnad, S. and Shadbolt, N. (2005) <a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11160/"><span style="color:#205c90">Journal publishing and author self-archiving: Peaceful Co-Existence and Fruitful Collaboration</span></a>. Technical Report, ECS, University of Southampton</font></p>
</blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 12.0px 0px;font:12.0px Arial;color:#666666"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">Carr, L., Swan, A., and Harnad, S (2011) <a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/271844/">Creating and Curating the Cognitive Commons: Southampton’s Contribution</a>. In: Simons, Maarten, Decuypere, Mathias, Vlieghe, Joris & Masschelein, Jan (eds.) <i>Curating the European University</i> Universitaire Pers Leuven, 193-199. </font></p>
</blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 12.0px 0px;font:12.0px Arial;color:#666666"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">Shadbolt, N., Brody, T., Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2006) <a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12453/"><span style="color:#205c90">The Open Research Web: A Preview of the Optimal and the Inevitable</span></a>, in Jacobs, N., Ed. <i>Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects</i> Chandos.</font></p>
</blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 12.0px 0px;font:12.0px Arial;color:#205c90"><span style="color:#666666"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">Harnad, S. (2012) <a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/273093/"><span style="color:#205c90">Research Works Act H.R.3699: The Private Publishing Tail Trying To Wag The Public Research Dog, Yet Again</span></a>. Technical Report, ECS, University of Southampton</font></span></p>
</blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 12.0px 0px;font:12.0px Arial;color:#666666"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">Poynder, R. (2012) <a href="http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/oa-advocate-stevan-harnad-withdraws_26.html"><span style="color:#205c90">OA advocate Stevan Harnad withdraws support for RCUK policy</span></a>. <a href="http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/oa-advocate-stevan-harnad-withdraws_26.html"><span style="color:#205c90">Open and Shut</span></a> July 26 2012</font></p>
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