I would echo Fred's comments, but would urge respondents not to avoid the issue of embargo periods for green OA. You may have a view as to how long embargoes should be, whether they should be lengthened, and whether there is any evidence that embargoes harm subscriptions.
David On 11 Jan 2013, at 12:07, Frederick Friend wrote: > It is certainly worth any subscriber to this list who supports open access > submitting evidence, whether institutional or personal. Submissions to the > 2004 Enquiry by the equivalent House of Commons Select Committee were taken > seriously and many did influence the Committee’s Report, although > (unfortunately) not the UK Government’s Response. I urge everybody not to tie > themselves too closely to the four issues highlighted by the Committee. In > particular it would be good to see submissions which look at OA from > researchers’ or taxpayers’ perspectives. > > Fred Friend > Honorary Director Scholarly Communication UCL > http://www.friendofopenaccess.org.uk > > From: Alma Swan > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 8:48 AM > To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) ; SPARC Open Access Forum > Subject: [GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] New Year's challenge for repository > developers and managers: awesome cross-search > > The UK's House of Lords (upper chamber of Parliament) Science & Technology > Committee is conducting an enquiry into Open Access. Written submissions are > welcome. Individuals and organisations are invited to give their views on the > actions taken by Government and RCUK following publication of the Finch > report. > > The HoL has issued guidance > <http://www.openscholarship.org/jcms/c_7334/hol-guidance-notes-open-access-enquiry> > on how to make written submissions. > > In particular, there are four issues highlighted by the committee: > support for universities in the form of funds to cover article processing > charges, and the response of universities and HEIs to these efforts > embargo periods for articles published under the Green model > engagement with publishers, universities, learned societies and other > stakeholders in the development of research council Open Access policies and > guidance > challenges and concerns raised by the scientific and publishing communities, > and how these have been addressed > > The deadline is 18th January. > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "SPARC OA Forum" group. > To post to this group, send email to sparc-oafo...@arl.org > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sparc-oaforum+unsubscr...@arl.org > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/a/arl.org/group/sparc-oaforum
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