<div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div>I am not so familiar with British politics, but I believe there are two lines of argument that can prove (already proved actually) to be very efficient in the American context. One is the <a href="http://www.taxpayeraccess.org" target="_blank">taxpayer access</a> argument, with the rising emphasis now on decreasing/efficiently using federal funds, etc. The second one is actually a only variant of the first, which is the emphasis that most a lot of the subscription revenue actually goes to European corporations, not American ones. You can watch Pat Brown <a href="https://youtu.be/F7CMMdQgbew?list=PLKzRudZaXUD0SA6IMycQD9UOIE-kYOPfm&t=2047" target="_blank">here </a>tell the story of the congressman who first introduced the amendment to the NIH appropriations bill (2-3 minutes.. it's really worth it). <br><br></div><div>Regards,<br></div>ElHassan<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 12:54 AM, Heather Morrison <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca" target="_blank">Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>It strikes me that isolationism / protectionism does not bode well for global businesses of any kind, including a few large commercial scholarly publishers with globally based businesses. For example, healthy profits of UK-based publishers might seem like
a very good idea to the current UK government, but I suspect this is less of a priority in other countries such as the rest of the EU post-Brexit. </div>
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Around the time of the Finch Report in the UK one of the arguments one heard against the UK attempting to be a first mover towards total open access was that it we would ‘give away’ our research to competitors (especially the Chinese - the whiff of xenophobia
in the argument was always a detectable undertone) while they would keep theirs for themselves. This would put us at a disadvantage.
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<div>It took a lot of effort to remind people that we were talking about research that had been made public (though subscription journals). We weren’t revealing anything that hadn’t been revealed before, just making it more accessible. (We also pointed
out that countries such as the US and China were publishing more in open access journals than the UK was.)</div>
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<div>So I guess my fear is that if some of us are moving in a more isolationist direction, one in which we are much more concerned about our positions in trade negotiations (and trade wars) and ‘protecting’ our assets, then perhaps that agreement might
be seen again. Ironically, the people who will perhaps argue most strongly against it (and who have the ear of government through powerful lobbying machines) are those who are seeing massive increases in their revenues from hybrid open access fees!</div>
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It appears to me that some governments, notably the US and the UK, have undergone a political shift from a trend towards globalization towards protectionism / emphasis on the local. Whether this is a good idea or not is an important political question. Many
people will have strong feelings about this matter, and this will include people in the OA movement as well as those we work with.
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My first thoughts are that institutional repository OA policy and supporting local publishing (for us, ideally OA publishing), would seem to fit. Perhaps some politicians would see the benefits of sharing our own work openly as a display of the strength of
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