<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In response to the BIS Select Committee Report </span><a href="http://www.researchinfonet.org/finch-report-response-to-select-committe/" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">Dame Janet Finch</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> writes:</span><blockquote style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<strong>Dame Janet Finch:</strong> <em>"There are some unfortunate gaps in the Select Committee’s consideration. In particular their comments on the publishing industry take no account of a [sic] Learned Societies, whose publishing and other roles have been a major concern of our working group."</em></blockquote>
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The substantive recommendations of the 2013 BIS Report (</span><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmbis/99/9902.htm" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">I</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">, </span><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmbis/99/99vw01.htm" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">II</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">) were:</span><blockquote style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<strong>1. </strong>that the Green OA deposit <a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html" style="color:rgb(0,51,102)" target="_blank">in the institutional repository</a> should be <em><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html" style="color:rgb(0,51,102)" target="_blank">immediate</a></em> rather than delayed, whether or not Open Access to the deposit is embargoed by the publisher (during any OA embargo the repository's <a href="https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/notices/publicnotices.php?notice=902" style="color:rgb(0,51,102)" target="_blank">eprint-request Button</a> can then enable the author to fulfill individual user eprint requests automatically with one click each <em>if deposit was immediate</em>),whether or not Open Access to the deposit is embargoed by the publisher,<br>
<br><strong>2.</strong> that an effective <a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/342647/" style="color:rgb(0,51,102)" target="_blank">mechanism for monitoring and ensuring timely mandate compliance</a> should be implemented, and<br>
<br><strong>3.</strong> that <a href="http://poynder.blogspot.ca/2013/07/where-are-we-what-still-needs-to-be.html" style="color:rgb(0,51,102)" target="_blank">Gold OA publishing</a> should either no longer be preferred or hybrid Gold should no longer be funded.</blockquote>
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">It is not at all clear how this amounts to </span><em style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">"tak[ing] no account of a [sic] Learned Societies, whose publishing and other roles have been a major concern of our working group."</em><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Report does recommend shorter limits on the maximum allowable publisher embargo on OA, but that has no bearing whatsoever on the substantive recommendations above, which refer to the mandatory date of deposit, not to the date on which the deposit is made OA.</span><br>
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