<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Re: A Hitler, M Theresa and C Cola:<div><br></div><div>Demonizing publishers may be fun (rather the way Gold Fever is fun) but it is</div><div>ineffectual. Providing OA is entirely in the hands of the research community:</div><div>all they (research institutions and funders) need do is to mandate providing</div><div>Green OA.</div><div><br></div><div>The rest is in the implementational details. Ranting at publishers and</div><div>trying to convert them to Gold OA is futile, expensive, and has already</div><div>wasted a decade.</div><div><br></div><div>The handwriting is on the wall for all to see (and has been for a decade</div><div>now). Eventually we'll get it right….</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Gargouri Y, Lariviere V, Gingras Y, Brody T, Carr L & Harnad S (2012) </span></div><div><a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/344687/1/finch2.pdf" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Testing the Finch Hypothesis on Green OA Mandate Ineffectiveness</a><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </i></div><div><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Open Access Week 2012</i></div></body></html>