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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Martin Hall: "Green or Gold? Open Access After Finch" <a href="http://uksg.metapress.com/content/e062u112h295h114/fulltext.html" target="_blank" style="color:purple">http://uksg.metapress.com/content/e062u112h295h114/fulltext.html</a></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">Fuller hyperlinked version of this posting: </font><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/956-guid.html">http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/956-guid.html</a></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">The substance of Martin Hall's defence of the Finch recommendation that the UK should (double-)pay for Gold instead of strengthening its mandate for Green is that (1) Gold provides the publisher's version of record, rather than just the author's peer-reviewed final draft, that (2) Gold provides text-mining rights and that (3) Gold is the way to solve the journal price problem.</span></p>
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</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">What Hall does not even consider is whether the publisher's version of record and text-mining rights are worth the asking price of Gold, compared to cost-free Green. His account (like everyone else's) is also astonishingly vague and fuzzy about how the transition to Gold is to take place in the UK. <i>And Hall (like Finch) completely fails to take the rest of the world into account.</i> All the reckoning about the future of publishing is based on the UK's policy for its 6%.</span></p>
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</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Hall quotes Peter Suber's objection but does not answer it. </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.5pt">The Swan/Houghton economic analyses, too, are cited by Hall, as if in support, but in fact not heeded at all.</span></p>
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