OK. Let's see where we've got to in the recent flurry over Gold
option and monographs/books:
--The UK is only one country, and things may be different elsewhere.
No debate. I only referred to consequences in the UK. E.g., Canada
(I'm a Canadian citizen living in the UK) may have
In response to Dr. Morrison: If you're getting by with author-pay
charges per journal article of $1000 (Canadian, I presume), count
yourself lucky. The two articles I've had accepted this year, in
journals published by OUP and by Brill, each would have cost me
£2000-2500 (UK Pounds).
Contra Prosser, it IS strictly true in the UK that the *Gold* option
involves author-pays. The RCUK allows the Green approach *for the
present time*, but with intonations that they'd really like everything
to go Gold. I've read the consultation document.
Larry Hurtado
Quoting David
Thanks to Steven Harnad for giving us his enthusiastic view on the
HEFCE prooposd policy for REF and OA. Among my concerns that he
doesn't address, however, is one that will be shared by many/all in
the Humanities (almost always the Cinderella at the OA ball): What
about books?
Though
Webster concisely articulates the concerns that I briefly mooted a few
days ago.
Larry Hurtado
Quoting Omega Alpha Open Access oa.openacc...@gmail.com on Wed, 25
Jul 2012 11:03:30 -0400:
Hat Tip: Let’s not leave Humanities behind in the dash for open access
http://wp.me/p20y83-no
Nice
I'm President of my UK learned society, and have had no contact about
the Finch project or anything connected with scholarly publishing.
So, I'm not confident that the scholarly community has been involved
adequately in the Finch process (though I stand to be corrected).
From what little
