<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">On Mar 4, 2014, at 5:56 PM, Gerritsma, Wouter <<a href="mailto:wouter.gerritsma@wur.nl">wouter.gerritsma@wur.nl</a>> wrote:</span><br><div><font face="Arial"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></font><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#000000">For two working groups of the Dutch University libraries I</font></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#000000">was asked to make a calculation for the costs of a 100% Gold open access model.<o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#000000">It will only costs 10.5 million euro extra was my conclusion.<o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Blogged at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://wowter.net/2014/03/05/costs-going-gold-netherlands/" style="text-decoration: underline;">http://wowter.net/2014/03/05/costs-going-gold-netherlands/</a></font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><font face="Arial">Unless I have misunderstand, this "10.5 million euro extra” for Dutch University Libraries</font></div><div><font face="Arial">means 10.5 million euro extra <i>over and above what Dutch University Libraries</i></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><i>are paying for subscriptions</i>. </font></div><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial">In other words, for a surcharge of 10.5 million </font><span style="font-family: Arial;">dollars Dutch University libraries </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial;">can purchase gold OA for Dutch research </span><b style="font-family: Arial;">output </b><span style="font-family: Arial;">(assuming that suitable gold </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial;">OA journals </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">exist for all Dutch research output, and that all Dutch researchers </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial;">are willing to publish in them).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial;">But at the same time </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Dutch University libraries</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> also have </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">to continue to pay to </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial;">subscribe to the </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">research </span><b style="font-family: Arial;">input</b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> from all other universities </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">and research institutions </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial;">worldwide, </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">as long as they publish in subscription-based </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">journals rather than gold OA </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial;">journals (or are unwilling or unable to pay for gold OA).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></div><div><font face="Arial">This pre-emptive double-payment for gold OA I have come to call “<i>Fool’s Gold</i>."</font></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></div><div><font face="Arial">What is being left out of this calculation, of course, is that the Netherlands, like all</font></div><div><font face="Arial">countries, can have OA at no extra cost by mandating green OA self-archiving of</font></div><div><font face="Arial">all of its research output in Dutch universities’ institutional repositories.</font></div><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial">In other words, this sounds like the Dutch echo of the UK Finch recommendations</font></div><div><font face="Arial">to pay fextra for gold OA instead of just mandating green OA. This recommendation</font></div><div><font face="Arial">issues, not coincidentally, from the two countries with the heaviest concentration</font></div><div><font face="Arial">of the journal publishing industry, and hence journal publishing industry lobbyists,</font></div><div><font face="Arial">as repeatedly voiced by Sander Dekker, Netherlands </font>State Secretary for the Ministry </div><div>of Education, Culture and Science:</div><div><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1073-.html">http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1073-.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>All the published objections to the Finch recommendations would apply to </div><div>Dekker’s Dutch recommendations if they were ever to become a policy</div><div>(mandate). Fortunately they are not mandatory and can and should be</div><div>ignored in favor or mmandating green OA, as the European Commission</div><div>has done. The UK mandate will also (it is to be hopes) shortly shored with</div><div>an immediate-deposit requirement from HEFCE.</div><div><a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/349893/">http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/349893/</a></div><div><br></div><div>To understand why green OA needs to be mandated first, and how it will</div><div>first provide OA, and then make subscriptions unsustainable, inducing</div><div>publishers to cut costs and convert to <i>Fair Gold</i> OA at an affordable,</div><div>sustanainable price by offloading all archiving and access provision onto</div><div>the worldwide network of mandatory green OA institutional repositories,</div><div>see:</div><div><br></div><div><div>Harnad, S. (2010) No-Fault Peer Review Charges: The Price of Selectivity Need </div><div>Not Be Access Denied or Delayed. D-Lib Magazine 16 (7/8). </div><div><a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21348/">http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21348/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Houghton, J. & Swan, A. (2013) Planting the Green Seeds for a Golden Harvest: </div><div>Comments and Clarifications on "Going for Gold". D-Lib Magazine 19 (1/2).</div><div><a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january13/houghton/01houghton.html">http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january13/houghton/01houghton.html</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><br></div><br></body></html>