On 2013-03-07, at 1:59 AM, Steve Hitchcock wrote: Most authors, it has behttps://theses.lib.sfu.ca/thesis/etd7530en shown, choose journals rather than access routes, Consider a current toll-access journal introduces a rather high hybrid OA fee. Not untypical. Authors publishing in this journal will continue to choose it, but the institutional committee responsible for managing the OA publishing block grant has scarce funds and refuses to pay the OA fees in the case of this journal. The green OA author continues to do what they have always done and self-archive, but now they have to apply a 24 month embargo, where before there wasn't one. The non-OA author, well, doesn't care. Publication as normal. Nothing gained, nothing lost. There is no gold payment; the policy may require them to self-archive where they didn't before, but to no practical OA purpose that this author would recognise.
Comment This is how the RCUK policy risks decreasing open access. If a publisher applies a 24 month embargo where there wasn't one before, or there was a shorter embargo before, then this policy is likely to be applied universally, not just in the UK. So even if authors outside the UK want to provide open access as soon as possible, and even if funders outside the UK insist on a shorter embargo period, longer embargoes inspired by the RCUK policy will mean the whole world will have to wait. For UK researchers, this means less access to the most current research from the 94% of researchers outside of the UK. best, Heather Morrison _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
