<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,50,51)">Rick Rylance (<a href="http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/About-Us/Governance-structure/Senior-Management-Team/Pages/Professor-Rick-Rylance.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,50,102)">CEO, AHRC</span></a>) in <span style="color:rgb(0,50,102)"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/student/postgraduate/postgraduate-study/research-matters-students-will-reap-the-benefits-of-new-thinking-on-access-to-valuable-research-materials-8167978.html" target="_blank">Independent</a></span> onRCUK policy:</p>
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<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,50,51)"><i>"because we recognise that… the… pay-to-publish "gold" model of Open Access.. is not always available, we've retained a mixed model </i><span style="text-decoration:underline"><i>for the time being</i></span><i>. This means that </i><span style="text-decoration:underline"><i>if there is not a to pay-to-publish option, researchers can opt for the "green" model of open access</i></span><i> where the paper would be available via a repository </i><span style="text-decoration:underline"><i>after an embargo period</i></span><i>… [Emphasis added]</i></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,50,51)">Why "for the time being"?</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,50,51)">Why (cost-free) Green only if (paid) Gold unavailable?</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,50,51)">Why is Green described as embargoed when over 60% of journals (including the top journals in most fields) already endorse immediate, unembargoed Green (and "Almost OA" is available for the remaining 40%)?</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,50,51)">Is RCUK trying to encourage publishers to increase their Green OA embargoes?</p>