Peter Suber - Another clarification of the open-access policy at the…

peter.suber's bookmarks 2012-09-28

Summary:

"... The clarifications [of the RCUK OA policy] are necessary because many careful readers misunderstand the policy on points that matter, such as when authors may choose green OA instead of gold OA. The RCUK knows this, but has decided not to revise the official language of the policy to reflect the unofficial clarifications. More importantly, the clarifications are insufficient. Even properly understood, the policy is needlessly slow, expensive, incomplete, and uncertain, and puts the interests of publishers ahead of the interests of researchers and taxpayers. See my detailed critique in the September 2012 issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/09-02-12.htm#uk-ec   "

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oa.new oa.gold oa.mandates oa.green oa.uk oa.funders oa.rcuk oa.repositories oa.policies oa.journals

Date tagged:

09/28/2012, 18:09

Date published:

09/28/2012, 14:09