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<p class="owaPara">Dear Peter,</p>
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<p class="owaPara">When I give a donation to a medical charity I am very happy for the charity to spend my money as it best thinks fit, even including payments to publishers. What I do not expect is that the charity would influence Government policy on what
happens to the taxes I pay in an area of public policy that is broader than medical research. Also many donations to medical charities come through bequests or from people who are not UK taxpayers, and the taxpayer base is very different in composition to
the charitable donors base. In my view the Wellcome went a step too far in encouraging the application to public policy of its own policy of making additional payments to publishers for open access. It is not surprising that the publishing interests dominating
the Finch Group seized upon this support from the Wellcome.</p>
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<p class="owaPara">With best wishes,</p>
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<p class="owaPara">Fred Friend</p>
<p class="owaPara">Honorary Director Scholarly Communication UCL</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> 11 September 2013 09:54<br>
<b>To:</b> Friend, Fred; Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [GOAL] Re: [sparc-oaforum] Some Reflection from Wellcome Would Be Welcome</font>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">"the mistake came when they supported the application of their own policies to taxpayer-funded research."</span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">To the extent that Wellcome and other charities enjoy tax-breaks, it can be argued that theirs is also "taxpayer-funded research". See, for example…</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Lisbet Rausing ("Toward a New Alexandria: Imagining the Future of Libraries", The New Republic, 2010)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/toward-new-alexandria">http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/toward-new-alexandria</a></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10pt;">"Few academic databases and research tools are in the public domain, even though
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10pt;">the public has paid for them—through research grants, tax breaks, and donations."</span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">and Peter Suber ("Open Access", MIT Press, 2012, ch.1)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/9780262517638_Open_Access_PDF_Version.pdf">http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/9780262517638_Open_Access_PDF_Version.pdf</a></span></font></p>
<pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">"Public and private funding agencies are essentially </span></font></pre>
<pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">public and private charities, funding research they regard </span></font></pre>
<pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">as useful or beneficial. Universities have a public purpose </span></font></pre>
<pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">as well, even when they are private institutions. We sup- </span></font></pre>
<pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">port the public institutions with public funds, and we </span></font></pre>
<pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">support the private ones with tax exemptions for their </span></font></pre>
<pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">property and tax deductions for their donors."</span></font></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">
goal-bounces@eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of
</span></b>Friend, Fred<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> 10 September 2013 17:16<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Stevan Harnad; Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [GOAL] Re: [sparc-oaforum] Some Reflection from Wellcome Would Be Welcome</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Stevan explains the influence of the Wellcome upon OA policy very well. The Wellcome did an excellent job in making publications from its own researchers OA, but the mistake
came when they supported the application of their own policies to taxpayer-funded research. They were over-influenced by publishers, who of course stood to benefit considerably from the extension of Wellcome's largesse by the taxpayer.
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Fred Friend </span></font></p>
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Stevan Harnad <<a href="mailto:amsciforum@gmail.com">amsciforum@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> 10 September 2013 16:29:35<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [sparc-oaforum] Some Reflection from Wellcome Would Be Welcome</span></font>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">It's time for the Wellcome Trust to think more deeply about its endlessly repeated mantra that the
"cost of publication is part of the cost of funding research." <br>
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The statement is true enough, but profoundly incomplete: As a private foundation, Wellcome only funds researchers' research. It does not have to fund their institutional journal subscriptions, which are currently paying the costs of publication for all non-OA
research. And without access to those subscription journals, researchers would <em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">lose</span></font></i></em> access to everything that is not yet Open Access (OA) -- which means access
to most of currently published research. Moreover, if those subscriptions stopped being paid, no one would be paying the costs of publication.<br>
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In the UK, it is the tax-payer who pays the costs of publication (which is "part of the cost of funding research"), by paying the cost of journal access via institutional subscriptions. It is fine to wish that to be otherwise, but it cannot just be wished away,
and Wellcome has never had to worry about paying for it.<br>
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The Wellcome slogan and solution -- the "cost of publication is part of the cost of funding research," so pay pre-emptively for Gold OA -- works for Wellcome, and as a wish list. But it is not a formula for getting us all from here (c. 30% OA, mostly Green)
to there (100% OA). It does not scale up from Wellcome to the UK, let alone to the rest of the world. What scales up is mandating Green OA. Once Green OA reaches 100%, journals can be cancelled, forcing them to downsize and convert to Fair Gold, single-paid
at an affordable, sustianable price, instead of double-paid pre-emptively at today's arbitrarily inflated Fools-Gold price.<br>
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Hence it is exceedingly bad advice on Wellcome's part, to urge the UK, that because the "cost of publication is part of the cost of funding research," the UK should double-pay (subscriptions + Gold OA) for what Wellcome itself only needs to single-pay. (And
this is without even getting into the sticky question of overpricing and double-dipping.)<br>
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Wellcome took a bold and pioneering step in </span></font><a href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4115.html"><font color="#003366" face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">2004</span></font></a><font color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> in
mandating OA.<br>
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But in since cleaving unreflectively to pre-emptive payment for Gold OA as the preferred means of providing OA -- because Wellcome does not have to pay for subscriptions -- the net effect of the Wellcome pioneering intiative is now beginning to turn negative
rather than positive.<br>
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I hope the </span></font><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1040-UK-BIS-Committee-2013-Report-on-Open-Access.html"><font color="#003366" face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">BIS
Report</span></font></a><font color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> will encourage Wellcome to re-think the rigid route that it has been promoting for a decade,
culminating in the Finch Fiasco.</span></font></p>
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