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<DIV>Of course the only people who benefit from this shambles in UK policy are
the “big deal” publishers, who can be assured that UK libraries will renew their
contracts yet again as the proportion of content available on OA fails to reach
the level needed to dispense with the “big deals”. RCUK cannot be blamed too
much for the shambles, which is not of their making, but both the UK Government
(for a hasty decision to go with paid gold OA) and the Finch Group (for making
Recommendations based upon shaky “evidence”) must acknowledge their mistakes.
Particularly revealing is the statement by Dame Janet Finch in the Paul Jump
article that “it will be a long time if ever we get 100 per cent gold open
access”. Very true - so why did the Finch Group recommend priority be given to
gold open access and why did the UK Government rush to accept the Group’s
Recommendation? The losers in the shambles will not only be UK researchers and
taxpayers but also those smaller OA publishers who thought that enough money
would be made available by the UK Government to pay for the gold OA
policy.</DIV>
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<DIV>Fred Friend</DIV>
<DIV>Honorary Director Scholarly Communication UCL</DIV>
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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> Sunday, December 02, 2012 5:03 AM</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>Cc:</B> <A title=JISC-REPOSITORIES@jiscmail.ac.uk
href="mailto:JISC-REPOSITORIES@jiscmail.ac.uk">jisc-repositories</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [sparc-oaforum] RCUK Still Sleep-Walking on Open Access
(Wake-Up Call)</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B>CARROT & STICK NEEDED FOR GREEN OPEN
ACCESS</B></DIV></B></SPAN>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">comment on </DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">"<A
href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=422001&c=1">Carat
and stick: no hard targets for gold open access</A>" </DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">(Paul Jump, <I>Times Higher, </I>2 Dec
2012)</DIV>
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is increasingly confirming that it is sleep-walking ("<A
href="http://www.acss.org.uk/docs/Open%20Access%20event%20Nov%202012/OAWorkshop.htm">Implementing
Finch</A>" Academy of Social Sciences, 29-30 Nov 2012</SPAN><SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN
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this talk about how to spend the Gold OA money, how much there is of it, how it
is to be monitored -- but <I>not a word about how cost-free Green OA is to be
monitored</I>.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><BR
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now a leisurely 5 years in which to discover what a big, unnecessary mistake
RCUK is making if it does not <A
href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september12/harnad/09harnad.html">shore up its
Green OA mandate</A> (for which there has already been a 5-year "acculturation"
period). The <A href="http://vimeo.com/53696882">rest of the world</A> --
focussed on doing just that -- will meanwhile leave the UK far behind in its
wake if RCUK does not wake up.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN
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up call: </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN
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<A
href="http://9wzw4gywnjzxnzig&qesig=a4ifbwef9xnt4ebk-gwk4w&pkc=afgz2tl46g7kflstmoxoskq4whkrgiwvwowrq6nzr3tchgbabbzapitehrcarihlcs0uu_geuvzcc1z06irrf_qqi5bakd_3tw&pq=kell%20lead%20rcuk%20openaccess&cp=28&gs_id=3p&xhr=t&q=kell+lead+rcuk+%22open+access%22&pf=p&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&oq=kell+lead+rcuk+%22open+access%22&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=60c64a7dcd180e02&bpcl=39314241&biw=1060&bih=768/">Douglass
Kell</A> & <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#q=thorley+blogurl:http://openaccess.eprints.org/&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=active&tbo=d&tbm=blg&tbas=0&source=lnt&sa=X&ei=IN66UIXvG6je0gG7iIHoDg&ved=0CBoQpwUoAA&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=35167f32fa20ab05&bpcl=39314241&biw=1060&bih=768">Mark
Thorley</A>)</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B>"<A
href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/07/04/why-the-uk-should-not-heed-the-finch-report/">Why
the UK Should Not Heed the Finch Report</A>"</B></DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B><BR></B></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B>"<A
href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.8174">Testing the Finch
Hypothesis</A>"</B></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B><BR></B></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B>"<A
href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/342647/">How and Why RCUK Open Access Policy
Needs Revision</A>"</B></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B><BR></B></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">
<DIV><B>"<A
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/sep/03/rcuk-gold-open-access-research-unjustified?newsfeed=true">There's
no justifying RCUK's support for [hybrid] gold open access</A>"</B></DIV></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B><BR></B></DIV></DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B>"<A
href="http://www.cfses.com/projects/Going%20for%20Gold%20-%20Comment%20and%20Clarification%20(Houghton%20and%20Swan).pdf">Planting
the green seeds for a golden harvest</A>"</B></DIV></DIV>
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