<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=""><font face="Arial" class="">There is absolutely no contradiction between making papers (Green) OA and publishing them in any journal you like.</font><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">(1) Deposit them in your institutional repository immediately upon acceptance for publication</font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">and</font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">(2a) Either make the deposit OA immediately </font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">or (if you want to comply with a publisher OA embargo)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">(2b) Make the deposit “Closed Access” and make sure your repository </font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">has implemented the “Almost-OA” copy-request Button,</font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">The biggest blockage to OA is indeed not “a lack of interoperable systems.” </font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Nor is it “unwillingness of publishers to engage.” (Publishers are irrelevant.)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">But wherever researchers fail to do (1) and either (2a) or (2b), </font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">the biggest blockage to OA is indeed researcher apathy.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Nothing whatsoever to do with journal choice, journal impact factors, or “mismeasurement.” </font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Red Herrings, all.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Dixit.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Stevan Harnad</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">——</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" class="">Harnad, S (2015) Optimizing Open Access Policy. The Serials Librarian, 69(2), 133-141</span></div><div class=""><a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/381526/" style="font-family: Arial;" class="">http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/381526/</a></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Sale, A., Couture, M., Rodrigues, E., Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2014) </font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Open Access Mandates and the "Fair Dealing" Button. </font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">In: Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online (Rosemary J. Coombe & Darren Wershler, Eds.) </font></div><div class=""><a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18511/" class="">http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18511/</a></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Vincent-Lamarre, P, Boivin, J, Gargouri, Y, Larivière, V & Harnad, S (2016) </font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/370203/" class="">Estimating Open Access Mandate Effectiveness: The MELIBEA Score.</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) 67 (in press) </font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/370203/" class="">http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/370203/</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">On Jul 11, 2016, at 10:25 AM, Danny Kingsley <<a href="mailto:dak45@cam.ac.uk" class="">dak45@cam.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</font></div><font face="Arial" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></font><div class="">
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Hello all,<br class="">
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The first in a series of blogs about 'The case for Open Research'
went live today. <br class="">
The case for Open Research: the mismeasurement problem -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=713">https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=713</a><br class="">
A taster:<br class="">
*********************************<br class=""></font><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(20, 20, 18); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Let’s face it. The biggest
blockage we have to widespread Open Access is not researcher
apathy, a lack of interoperable systems, or an unwillingness of
publishers to engage (although these do each play some part) – it
is the problem that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="font-weight: bold !important;" class="">the only thing that counts
in academia is publication in a high impact journal</strong>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(20, 20, 18); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">This situation is causing
multiple problems, from huge numbers of authors on papers,
researchers cherry picking results and retrospectively applying
hypotheses, to the reproducibility crisis and a surge in
retractions.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(20, 20, 18); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">This blog was intended to be an
exploration of some solutions prefaced by a short overview of the
issues. Rather depressingly, there was so much material the blog
has<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>had to be split up,
with several parts describing the problem(s) before getting to the
solutions.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(20, 20, 18); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Prepare yourself, this will be a
bumpy ride. <...snip...><br class="">
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I'm not sure that 'enjoy' is the right sign off.<br class="">
<br class="">
Danny<br class="">
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Dr Danny Kingsley
Head, Office of Scholarly Communication
Cambridge University Library
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