How about the following: "Because Open Access (OA) maximises research usage, impact and progress, funders and institutions must require that all researchers provide OA to their published research results. Institutions and their libraries will phase out all electronic journal subscriptions by May 1st, 2015 and invest in OA initiatives instead." Â --Eric.
http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com Google Voice: (626) 898-5415Telephone:    (626) 376-5415 Skype chat, voice, or web-video: efvandevelde E-mail: eric.f.vandeve...@gmail.com On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Jan Velterop <velte...@gmail.com> wrote: I would simplify it further: "Because Open Access (OA) maximises research usage, impact and progress, funders and institutions must require that all researchers provide OA to their published research results." Any form of dirigisme as to how this is to be achieved is best avoided. Avoiding prescriptions for the means helps keep the focus on the goal and also leaves the door open for imaginative ways of convincing researchers, funders and institutions, and even of achieving more OA in possibly more effective ways. I support this. A simple sentence powerful and this probably has what we want - like all sentences this may need slight crafting. The reality of the present situation is that we seem to need a mix of strategies. What works for one discipline may not work for another. Things have changed over the last 10 years and we need to look for changing methods, changing finances and changing allies. -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069 _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal [ Part 2: "Attached Text" ] _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
