[GOAL] New AOASG resource - Do OA funds support hybrid?

2014-03-05 Thread Danny Kingsley
The latest in the series on Payment for Publication from the Australian Open Access Support Group (AOASG) has gone live today. 'Do OA funds support hybrid?' - http://aoasg.org.au/funding-hybrid/ looks at some high profile funds and their statements on paying for hybrid publication. It also in

[GOAL] Re: Dutch Echoes of Finch

2014-03-05 Thread Stevan Harnad
Wouter, Yes, of course I knew that you were only the messenger, and doing the calculation! It is the pressure from Sander Dekker (or, rather, from those who are putting the pressure on Sander Dekker!) that is behind the foolish idea of increasing the already overstretched Dutch research publicatio

[GOAL] Re: Dutch Echoes of Finch

2014-03-05 Thread Gerritsma, Wouter
Stevan, Yes we could have green with the current subscription models and repository infrastructure. But still some important players don't allow green (Wiley, Nature and ACS to mention a few) But all I wanted to do, and was requested to do, to make a calculation to see what it would cost if ou

[GOAL] Dutch Echoes of Finch

2014-03-05 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Mar 4, 2014, at 5:56 PM, Gerritsma, Wouter wrote: > For two working groups of the Dutch University libraries I > was asked to make a calculation for the costs of a 100% Gold open access > model. > It will only costs 10.5 million euro extra was my conclusion. > Blogged at http://wowter.net/201