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<DIV>I read Martin Hall’s defence of the Finch Group Recommendations very
carefully, because one curious feature of this episode in the development of
open access in the UK is the way in which previously staunch defenders of open
access through repositories who were members of the Finch Group have signed up
to a Report which only allocates roles in preservation and data storage to
repositories, removing the role of access to published research reports they
previously shared with journals. The key objection Martin Hall has to an open
access policy based around repositories is “<SPAN
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main limitations are that they do not – and cannot – contain everything. <SPAN
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT face=Calibri>In particular, they cannot contain the
‘version of record’ when this is protected by a copyright that has been ceded to
a publisher, and the publisher requires payment to view the paper, either via a
journal subscription paid by an individual or an institution, or by means of a
‘pay-to-view’ charge via a commercial website.” In response it can be argued
that repositories have never claimed to contain all versions of record, but that
is not to say that they could not do so. Behind Martin Hall’s statement is a
view of scholarly communication which allocates responsibility for the “version
of record” uniquely to publishers. There is nothing that a publisher does to an
author’s manuscript in respect of peer-review or copy-editing than could not be
done by a repository out-sourcing such services probably at less cost than the
cost of an average publisher’s APC. (N.B. Such a solution may appear radical but
it is common in other areas.) Martin Hall’s statement also indicates an
acceptance of the situation in which all rights are transferred from an author
to a publisher. Neither Martin Hall nor the Finch Group as a whole have
suggested the very feasible solution of funders requiring authors to retain
certain rights for public benefit while still giving a publisher the right to
publish. Such a recommendation from the Finch Group would have removed the
limitation for repositories to provide text- and data-mining services which
Martin sees as a reason not to support the deposit of journal articles in
repositories. </FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT face=Calibri>If the argument for not supporting
repository development is weak, the argument for supporting a preference for
gold open access is even weaker. (N.B. what follows should not be read as
opposing all open access journal publication, merely the perverse policy to make
journals the primary route to open access.) The argument put forward in the
Finch Report is not only that repositories cannot provide a high-quality
sustainable service but also that even if they could, a publisher-led approach
is desirable. No evidence is put forward to support this key point in the Finch
Report. The case for a transition to gold open access is not evidence-based but
based upon a perceived threat to the publishing industry from any policy which
gives a substantial role to repositories as an alternative source of supply of
research articles. The case for “sustainability” presented in the Finch Report
is a case for sustainability of the publishing industry, including the use of
profits from journals to sustain the activities of academic societies. Is there
any other industry able to obtain that level of subsidised protection from a
government which - in hard economic times - is willing to pay many millions of
pounds in author publication charges to the industry receiving the protection in
order to provide that protection? The UK Government payments will ensure open
access to a proportion of UK research outputs but will place a heavy and
unnecessary burden upon the research budget for only a partial solution to the
provision of open access. In relation to the cost of gold open access the Finch
Report rightly mentions the importance of the extent to which other countries
adopt the same policy as the UK, but the optimism on this point in the Report is
clearly misplaced and represents a huge gamble not only with taxpayer funds but
also with the UK researchers’ relationship with their peers in other countries.
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are many other points to be made as comments upon Martin Hall’s article and upon
the Finch Report, including the points made by Stevan Harnad below. As a result
of reading Martin’s article and re-reading the Finch Report I am no further
forward in understanding how the open access advocates on the Finch Group could
have signed up to the Report, even though they may have been out-voted by the
publisher and society members. I was involved in much of the work cited in the
Finch Report, work which can be used as evidence of the background to the
issues, but nowhere have I been involved in or come across independent evidence
which could be used to justify the twin key recommendations of a preference for
gold open access and a limitation upon the role of repositories in providing
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=amsciforum@gmail.com
href="mailto:amsciforum@gmail.com">Stevan Harnad</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, November 10, 2012 12:55 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=goal@eprints.org href="mailto:goal@eprints.org">Global
Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [GOAL] Martin Hall's Defence of the UK Finch Committee
Recommendations: Green or Gold? Open Access After Finch</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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class=MsoNormal>Martin Hall: "Green or Gold? Open Access After Finch" <A
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href="http://uksg.metapress.com/content/e062u112h295h114/fulltext.html"
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face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Fuller hyperlinked version of this posting:
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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></DIV>
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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></DIV>
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Suber's objection but does not answer it. </SPAN><SPAN
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economic analyses, too, are cited by Hall, as if in support, but in fact not
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