There seems to be a good deal of confusion at University of Maryland (UMD) regarding Open Access (OA): http://www.diamondbackonline.com/news/university-will-devise-open-access-policies-1.2168182
(1) Royalties are irrelevant because OA's target content is refereed journal articles, for which authors receive no royalties. (2) Yes, one size *does* fit all disciplines: The university-wide policy should be that all authors deposit their refereed final drafts of journal articles in the UMD institutional repository immediately upon acceptance for publication. (3) If the author wishes to observe a publisher embargo on making the deposit Open Access (OA), access to the deposit can be set as "Closed Access" during the embargo interval. (4) During the embargo, authors can still provide copies of the deposit to users who request them with one keystroke each. (5) The sole policy needed is the immediate-deposit policy: Open Access journals are something else. (6) Authors must of course continue to be allowed to publish in whatever journal they wish, whether OA or non-OA. (7) If UMD wishes to subsidize publication fees for its authors publishing in OA journals, it can do so, but unless UMD first adopts an immediate-deposit policy, this provides very little OA to UMD output, at a very high price. (8) Providing OA to UMD's refereed research output has nothing to do with UMD becoming a publisher of OA journals. See: "The University’s Mandate to Mandate Open Access" Open Students: Students for Open Access to Research http://www.openstudents.org/2008/02/08/open-students-oa-for-the-next-generation/ Gargouri, Y., Hajjem, C., Lariviere, V., Gingras, Y., Brody, T., Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2010) Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research. PLOS ONE 5 (10) e13636 http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18493/ Harnad, S. (2011) Gold Open Access Publishing Must Not Be Allowed to Retard the Progress of Green Open Access Self-Archiving. Logos 21(3-4): 86-93 http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21818/ Harnad, S. (2010) No-Fault Peer Review Charges: The Price of Selectivity Need Not Be Access Denied or Delayed. D-Lib Magazine 16 (7/8). http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21348/ Harnad, S. (2010) The Immediate Practical Implication of the Houghton Report: Provide Green Open Access Now. Prometheus, 28 (1). pp. 55-59. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18514/ Harnad, S. (2010) Open Access to Research: Changing Researcher Behavior Through University and Funder Mandates. In Parycek, P. & Prosser, A. (Eds.): EDEM2010: Proceedings of the 4th Inernational Conference on E-Democracy: 13-22 http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21003/ Sale, A., Couture, M., Rodrigues, E., Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2010) Open Access Mandates and the "Fair Dealing" Button. In: Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online (Rosemary J. Coombe & Darren Wershler, Eds.) http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18511/ ========== This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to The SPARC Open Access Forum. To post, send your message to <SPARC-OAForum@arl.org>. To unsubscribe, email to <sparc-oaforum-...@arl.org>. To switch to digest mode, email to <sparc-oaforum-dig...@arl.org>. To switch to index mode, email to <sparc-oaforum-in...@arl.org>. Send administrative queries to <sparc-oaforum-requ...@arl.org>.
