<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Rick Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rick.anderson@utah.edu" target="_blank">rick.anderson@utah.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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<div dir="ltr"><b>SH: </b>there is unanimity among researchers about desiring -- even if not daring, except if mandated, to provide -- OA to peer-reviewed journal articles </div></blockquote>
<div>If researchers unanimously desired OA, then there would be an OA mandate on every campus… independent and critical thinking... tends to make a good researcher…. </div><div><div><a href="mailto:rick.anderson@utah.edu" target="_blank"></a></div>
</div></div></blockquote><div> </div></div>The reason researchers need OA mandates is very clear and unambiguous: fear of <a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/categories/16-Publishing-Lobby">publishers and their embargoes</a>.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">That's why the <a href="https://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#c2coff=1&hl=en&lr=&q=%22immediate-deposit%22+OR+(Liege+model)+blogurl%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&safe=active&tbas=0&tbm=blg">immediate-deposit Liege-model mandate</a> is so crucially important: It is a temporary compromise that gets all articles immediately deposited and is immune to publisher embargoes.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">There will be an OA mandate on every campus (and every funder). It is just taking them time to sort out which mandate is most effective. The <a href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.8174.pdf">evidence</a> in increasingly pointing to the Liege-model immediate-deposit mandate. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">"Independent and critical thinking" researchers will act according to the evidence: depend on it. They may be slow, but they are not stupid… </div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The publisher lobbies and embargoes will fail. They are simply attempts to delay the optimal and inevitable outcome for research and researchers (so as to keep milking the cash cow for as long as possible). </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Stevan Harnad</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>