<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Rick Anderson </span><span dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><<a href="mailto:rick.anderson@utah.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">rick.anderson@utah.edu</a>></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> wrote:</span><div class=""><div class="gmail_extra" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Given that HEFCE continues to allow CC BY NC ND licensing, can </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">its policy really be called Open Access?</div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"Open Access" (OA) is not synonymous with CC-BY, and never was.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is Gratis OA (free online access) and Libre OA (free online access + re-use rights)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And the re-use rights can range over all the CC licenses, all the way up to CC-BY.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Gratis OA is urgently needed (and vastly overdue) in all fields.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Gratis OA is also the easiest to provide, because it faces far fewer rights restrictions from publishers.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Libre OA is urgently needed in only a few fields (and not as urgently as those same fields need Gratis OA). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(Libre OA would also be beneficial, but not urgent, in many other fields.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But Libre OA is much harder to provide, because it faces far more restrictions from publishers.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hence the rational and practical policy is to mandate Gratis OA first.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Once Gratis OA has prevailed globally, as much Libre OA as users need and authors wish to provide </div><div class="">will not be far behind.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">But not if policy-makers foolishly try to mandate Libre OA first, instead of Gratis OA.</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Gratis OA already faces publisher OA embargoes. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But the Liege/HEFCE immediate-deposit mandate plus the repositories' copy-request Button </div><div class="">is immune to publisher OA embargoes and can provide the access that research and researchers </div><div class="">need most, and most urgently. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is not yet 100% Gratis OA, but once immediate-deposit plus the Button prevail globally, </div><div class="">Gratis OA (and then Libre OA) will not be far behind.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The only way researchers can provide immediate Libre OA now is if they pay for Gold OA.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is exactly why publishers are trying to embargo Green Gratis OA: to force authors to pay </div><div class="">for Libre Gold OA.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">And this is exactly why Green Gratis OA must be globally mandated first.</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Stevan Harnad</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 10, 2015, at 11:12 AM, Stevan Harnad <<a href="mailto:amsciforum@gmail.com" class="">amsciforum@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">HEFCE/REF have updated the FAQs for their Open Access Policy: </div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><a href="http://www.hefce.ac.uk/whatwedo/rsrch/rinfrastruct/oa/faq/" class="" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:purple">http://www.hefce.ac.uk/whatwedo/rsrch/rinfrastruct/oa/faq/</a><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The HEFCE/REF OA policy is excellent: very well thought out, clearly explained,</div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">and implementable by one and all (both institutions and funders). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It is an implementation of the Liège model for aligning and harmonizing all OA</div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">policies, and especially for the all-important evaluation/assessment contingencies</div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">as well as compliance-monitoring.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In my view, by far the fastest and surest way to reach universal OA globally is for all</div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">institutions and funders to adopt this model.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here are what I think are the three most important of the FAQ items for the</div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">HEFCE/REF OA Policy:</div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px" class=""><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);" class=""><a href="http://www.hefce.ac.uk/whatwedo/rsrch/rinfrastruct/oa/faq/#" class=""><b class="">3. What is meant by the date of acceptance? (NEW)</b></a></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); min-height: 15px;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);" class=""><a href="http://www.hefce.ac.uk/whatwedo/rsrch/rinfrastruct/oa/faq/#" class=""><b class="">5. Why does the policy state that deposit on acceptance is required?</b></a></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); min-height: 15px;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);" class=""><a href="http://www.hefce.ac.uk/whatwedo/rsrch/rinfrastruct/oa/faq/#" class=""><b class="">37. What supporting information and evidence of meeting the deposit, discovery, access and exceptions should institutions retain?</b></a></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(Unmentioned, but all-important too, is the fact that although all the articles</div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">deposited immediately upon acceptance may not be immediately OA, they</div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">are nevertheless immediately accessible once deposited in the institutional</div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">repository, via the repositories' copy-request Button (<a href="http://wiki.eprints.org/w/RequestEprint" class="">eprints</a>, <a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/RequestCopy" class="">dspace</a>),</div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">with one click from the requestor and one click from the author.)</div><div style="font-weight:bold" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><b class="">Stevan Harnad</b><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>