Like a moth, now the UK Publishers Association is straying close to the flame that burned the Association of American Publishers over #RWA:
"Unfunded free access to research articles â far from raising the prestige of UK research and encouraging technology transfer â will instead undermine the financial base on which the UKâs strong scholarly publishing industry stands. And, without sustainable funding to support the value chain that publishers work within, the entire ecosystem of publishing, commercialisation and reinvestment in research and innovation will be destablised." House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Enquiry, Improving the Commercialisation of Research - a response from the Publishers Association, 8 February 2012 http://www.publishers.org.uk/files/PA_response_to_Science_and_Technology_Committee_Inquiry_-_Commercialisation_of_Research.pdf Steve Hitchcock WAIS Group, Building 32 School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK Email: sh...@ecs.soton.ac.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/stevehit Connotea: http://www.connotea.org/user/stevehit Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 9379 Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 9379 _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
