<div dir="ltr">PS<div><br></div><div>5. Stress cultivating the habit of self-deposit rather than proxy deposit.</div><div><br></div><div>6. Reward with regularly published and updated impact statistics (downloads, citations, etc.) in the institutional repository<br><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Stevan Harnad <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amsciforum@gmail.com" target="_blank">amsciforum@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Danny Kingsley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dak45@cam.ac.uk" target="_blank">dak45@cam.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><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"><div><span style="font-size:14px"><Apologies for cross positing></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px">Hello all,</span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px">A new Unlocking Research blog published today “ <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#141412"><span style="line-height:1.3">Could the HEFCE policy be a Trojan Horse for gold OA?</span><span style="line-height:18px">”</span><span style="line-height:1.3"> - </span></font></span><a href="https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=488" target="_blank">https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=488</a> is arguing that changes to the HEFCE policy are moving it from a green policy towards a gold one.</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><strong style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Defending Green Turf</strong><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">There's no second-guessing human nature. And it's a no-brainer to guess that publishers will do all they can to circumvent the HEFCE/REF immediate-Green policy to steer it toward Gold and Hybrid-Gold.</span><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">But here are a few defensive strategies that could help:</span><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">1. The authors are the ones who know first when their papers are accepted: Implement a database of dated acceptance letters at the departmental level.</span><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">2. Do a REF rank-order exercise (not a "top four" exercise) every year, consisting of an author-ranked list of that year's publications, by order of likelihood of submitting for REF, together with acceptance date and publication date. Store and display that list permanently and publicly in the institutional repository as REF count-down, highlighting what risks being ineligible. (HEFCE will be accommodating; its goals are the right ones, and where temporary flexibility helps guide academic practice and culture toward the goal of Green rather than Fool's Gold, they will provide it.)</span><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">3. Do a monthly SCOPUS and WoS search for institutional published papers and follow up on all missing papers (perhaps at the departmental level rather than the library level -- wherever it is more effective).</span><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">4. Provide no funding for Gold or Hybrid-Gold.</span><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"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div> </div><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"><div><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px">A teaser:</span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px">**************************</span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(20,20,18);line-height:26.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The </span><a href="http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2014/201407/" style="font-size:14px;line-height:26.6667px;color:rgb(188,54,10);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">HEFCE Policy for open access in the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework</a><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(20,20,18);line-height:26.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> kicks in 9 weeks from now. </span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:26.6667px;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The policy states that, to be eligible for submission to the post-2014 REF, authors’ final peer-reviewed manuscripts of journal articles and conference proceedings with an ISSN must have been deposited in an institutional or subject repository on acceptance for publication. Deposited material should be discoverable, and free to read and download, for anyone with an internet connection.</span></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(20,20,18);line-height:26.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:26.6667px">The</span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:26.6667px"> </span><strong style="font-size:14px;line-height:26.6667px">goal</strong><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:26.6667px"> </span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:26.6667px">of the policy is to ensure that publicly funded (by HEFCE) research is publicly available. The</span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:26.6667px"> </span><strong style="font-size:14px;line-height:26.6667px">means</strong><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:26.6667px"> </span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:26.6667px">HEFCE have chosen to favour is the green route – by putting the AAM into a repository. This does not involve any payment to the publishers. The</span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:26.6667px"> </span><strong style="font-size:14px;line-height:26.6667px">timing </strong><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:26.6667px">of the policy – at acceptance – is to give us the best chance of obtaining the author’s accepted manuscript (AAM) before it is deleted, forgotten or lost by the author. </span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:26.6667px"><snip></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(20,20,18);line-height:26.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">***************************</p><div><span style="font-size:14px">Enjoy!</span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px">Danny</span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word">Dr Danny Kingsley<br>Head of Scholarly Communications<br>Cambridge University Library<br>West Road, Cambridge CB39DR<br>P: <a href="tel:%2B44%20%280%29%201223%20747%20437" value="+441223747437" target="_blank">+44 (0) 1223 747 437</a><br>M: <a href="tel:%2B44%20%280%29%207711%20500%20564" value="+447711500564" target="_blank">+44 (0) 7711 500 564</a><br>E: <a href="mailto:dak45@cam.ac.uk" target="_blank">dak45@cam.ac.uk</a><br>T: @dannykay68<br>ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3636-5939<br><br><br></div>
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