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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks Fred for this account of the current situation in the UK!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>According to my understanding there will be no open access without a dedicated open access infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The set of journal websites will not be that infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Open Access needs a combination of institutional repositories and a group of infrastructures (not only repositories in the classical meaning) aggregating, enhancing, preserving and disseminating content with a long term perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>APCs and subscription fees plus green road are only two approaches to provide funding for services and thus enable authors/publishers to feed content into the infrastructure which will provide the actual open access.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>APCs and subscription fees plus green road only pay to make information available at an initial stage.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Open access is a long term service based on the provision of content.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The minister should be educated that even if the British government decides a preference for gold there is a need for investment in an open access infrastructure on top of that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Institutional repositories for publications and data have vital function for their hosting institutions and as a mechanism to channel content into the next layer of the open access infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Christoph<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Von:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Friend, Fred [mailto:f.friend@ucl.ac.uk] <br><b>Gesendet:</b> Samstag, 9. März 2013 17:49<br><b>An:</b> goal@eprints.org; SPARC-OAForum@arl.org<br><b>Betreff:</b> [sparc-oaforum] The direction of travel for open access in the UK<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='color:black'>Open access in the UK is coming to a crossroads. Pointing in one direction are members of the political and scientific Establishment, working hard to convince the UK research community that a preference for APC-paid open access is the way to go, while wishing to travel down another road to open access are many senior people in universities and also many of the younger researchers, understanding the value in institutional repositories which the political and scientific Establishment refuse to support. Standing in the middle of the crossroads are many of the society publishers the Government wishes to protect, liking the Government’s policy in principle but not liking the uncertainties surrounding the implementation of that policy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='color:black'>A discussion and dinner held at the Royal Society one evening this week illustrated the determination of the political and scientific Establishment in the UK to force through an APC-preferred open access policy: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>No supporter of the repository route to open access was invited onto the panel at the meeting and the few dissenters from the Government/RCUK policy invited to the meeting found it very difficult to catch the Chairman’s eye. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The repository route to open access was only mentioned as a threat to the publishing industry and not as opportunity to introduce an academic-friendly and cost-effective business model for scholarly communication. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Opposition to the Government/RCUK policy came from a society publisher, on the grounds that the UK Government has not fully-funded a policy that will enable the publishing industry to survive in an open access world. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The unwillingness of the UK Government to consult with supporters of open access repositories is also illustrated by a response received this week to an FOI Request asking for details of a meeting held by Minister David Willetts on 12 February 2013. This meeting was attended by 12 representatives from publishers and learned societies with publishing interests and only 4 representatives from Higher Education. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The UK Government bias towards consultation with publishers was first illustrated by the response to an FOI Request in 2005, which revealed that the then Minister Lord Sainsbury had more meetings on open access with publisher representatives than with research representatives. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='color:black'>Most UK universities are continuing to support their institutional repositories and adding versions of research papers to those repositories. Universities unable to afford the cost of the Government/RCUK preferred policy may decide to use the RCUK’s promise that institutions will have discretion to choose for themselves between the various open access models and opt for more green than gold. The only beneficiaries from the Government’s preferred policy appear to be the high-profit STM publishers - who will continue to dominate both subscription and open access markets - and a small number of open access publishers with strong academic support. Amongst the losers may be the smaller society publishers without the breadth of support to secure a significant share of the open access publishing market. It is to be hoped that the promised monitoring of both the Finch Report Recommendations and the RCUK policy will take a broader view of open access and of the effect of policies than has been evident to date. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='color:black'>Fred Friend <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='color:black'>Honorary Director Scholarly Communication UCL<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='color:black'><a href="http://www.friendofopenaccess.org.uk">http://www.friendofopenaccess.org.uk</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <br>-- <br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google<br>Groups "SPARC OA Forum" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:sparc-oaforum@arl.org">sparc-oaforum@arl.org</a><br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to<br><a href="mailto:sparc-oaforum+unsubscribe@arl.org">sparc-oaforum+unsubscribe@arl.org</a><br>For more options, visit this group at<br><a href="http://groups.google.com/a/arl.org/group/sparc-oaforum">http://groups.google.com/a/arl.org/group/sparc-oaforum</a><br> <br> <br> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>