tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8087593.comments2023-03-31T04:18:16.302-06:00Issues in Scholarly CommunicationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8087593.post-74290421217779083042009-09-16T06:21:25.395-06:002009-09-16T06:21:25.395-06:00COMMIT TO PROVIDING GREEN OA BEFORE COMMITTING TO ...<br><b>COMMIT TO PROVIDING GREEN OA BEFORE COMMITTING TO PAY FOR GOLD OA</b><br /><br />I've said this <a href="http://blogsearch.google.ca/blogsearch?hl=en&num=100&c2coff=1&safe=active&ie=UTF-8&q=%28premature+OR+pre-emptive+OR+trojan%29+blogurl%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&btnG=Search+Blogs" rel="nofollow">so</a> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&num=100&q=%28premature+OR+pre-emptive+OR+trojan%29+site%3Alistserver.sigmaxi.org&aq=f&oq=&aqi=" rel="nofollow">often</a> now, unheeded, that all I can do is echo it yet again: <br /><br />Regardless of the size of the asking price ("reasonable" or unreasonable), it is an enormous strategic mistake for a university or research funder to commit to pre-emptive payment of Open Access Journal Publishing fees (Gold OA) until and unless the university or funder has first <a href="http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/" rel="nofollow">mandated</a> Green OA self-archiving for all of its own published journal article output (regardless of whether published in OA or non-OA journals).<br /><br />There are so far <a href="http://www.oacompact.org/signatories/" rel="nofollow">five signatories</a> to the "<a href="http://www.oacompact.org/compact/" rel="nofollow">Compact for Open-Access Equity</a>." Two of them have mandated Green OA (Harvard and MIT) and three have not (Cornell, Dartmouth, Berkeley). Many <a href="http://blogsearch.google.ca/blogsearch?hl=en&num=100&c2coff=1&safe=active&ie=UTF-8&q=scoap3+&btnG=Search+Blogs" rel="nofollow">non-mandating universities </a>have also been committing to the the pre-emptive <a href="http://blogsearch.google.ca/blogsearch?hl=en&num=100&c2coff=1&safe=active&ie=UTF-8&q=scoap3+blogurl%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&btnG=Search+Blogs" rel="nofollow">SCOAP3</a> consortium. <br /><br />If <a href="http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/fullinfo.php?inst=Harvard%20University%3A%20Faculty%20of%20Arts%20and%20Sciences" rel="nofollow">Harvard</a>'s and <a href="http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/fullinfo.php?inst=RMIT%20University" rel="nofollow">MIT</a>'s example is followed, and Green OA mandates grow globally ahead of Gold OA commitments, then there's no harm done. <br /><br />But if it is instead pre-emptive commitments to fund Gold OA that grow, at the expense of mandates to provide Green OA, then the worldwide research community will <a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december99/12harnad.html" rel="nofollow">yet again</a> have shot itself in the foot insofar as universal OA -- so long within its reach, yet still not grasped -- is concerned.<br /><br />Harnad, S. (1991) <a href="http://cogprints.org/1580/" rel="nofollow">Post-Gutenberg Galaxy: The Fourth Revolution in the Means of Production of Knowledge</a>. <em>Public-Access Computer Systems Review</em> 2 (1): 39 - 53 <br /><br />Harnad, S. (1995) <a href="http://www.arl.org/scomm/subversive/toc.html" rel="nofollow">Universal FTP Archives for Esoteric Science and Scholarship: A Subversive Proposal</a>. In: Ann Okerson & James O'Donnell (Eds.) <em>Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads; A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing.</em> Washington, ARL, June 1995. <br /><br />Harnad, S., Carr, L., Brody, T. & Oppenheim, C. (2003) <a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/Ariadne-RAE.htm" rel="nofollow">Mandated online RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives</a>. <em>Ariadne</em> 35.<br /><br />Harnad, S., Brody, T., Vallieres, F., Carr, L., Hitchcock, S., Gingras, Y, Oppenheim, C., Stamerjohanns, H., & Hilf, E. (2004) <a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10209/" rel="nofollow">The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access</a>. <em>Serials Review</em> 30. <br /><br />Harnad, S. (2007) <a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13309/" rel="nofollow">The Green Road to Open Access: A Leveraged Transition</a>. In: Anna Gacs. <em>The Culture of Periodicals from the Perspective of the Electronic Age</em>. L'Harmattan. 99-106. <br /><br />Harnad, S. (2009) <a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/15617/" rel="nofollow">The PostGutenberg Open Access Journal</a>. In: Cope, B. & Phillips, A (Eds.) <em>The Future of the Academic Journal</em>. Chandos.Stevan Harnadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14374474060972737847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8087593.post-32700639353418532462008-02-20T10:32:00.000-07:002008-02-20T10:32:00.000-07:00This is clever. I suppose the other big publisher...This is clever. I suppose the other big publishers will do something similar. In exchange for handling the adminstrative process of depositing their NIH-article into PubMed, Springer will take care of all that AND provide open access to the article right away, in exchange for $3000/article from the author. <BR/>See Springer Choice Details at <A HREF="http://www.springer.com/open+choice?SGWID=0-40359-12-115393-0" REL="nofollow">http://www.springer.com/open+choice?SGWID=0-40359-12-115393-0</A>ejhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00542270179318452501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8087593.post-42152205782326847212007-12-14T09:32:00.000-07:002007-12-14T09:32:00.000-07:00Oh, the OTHER UCD library.Oh, the OTHER UCD library.Jeffrey Beallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11892507846112379242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8087593.post-45650800204081017982007-07-25T11:05:00.000-06:002007-07-25T11:05:00.000-06:00Great blog! Here's another source if you're inter...Great blog! Here's another source if you're interested:<BR/><BR/>Information Access Alliance:<BR/>http://www.informationaccess.org/DZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09366274690536183874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8087593.post-1134758663568197372005-12-16T11:44:00.000-07:002005-12-16T11:44:00.000-07:00AgreedAgreedGBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07127916657650258601noreply@blogger.com