[GOAL] Publishers Association Proposal to HEFCE

[Forwarded from GOAL] "I just noticed the September 12 proposal to HEFCE by the Publishers Association . The proposal -- which is as predictable as the succession of night upon day -- is the following: *1. Don't require deposit upon the date of acceptance, because publisher embargoes are timed to begin on the date of publication, not the date of acceptance.* *2. Don't require deposit of the author's final draft; wait for the publisher's version of record.* *3. Don't require deposit at all: let us take care of it , after our embargo has elapsed: then you don't have to worry about figuring out the date of publication.* *4. Please send us a justification for wanting to do otherwise.* Now I find these four points so outrageous and presumptuous -- and so transparently self-interested, running roughshod over the interests of research, researchers, their institutions, their funders, and the tax-paying public -- that they don't need to be answered at all (and of course they need not and should not be heeded in any way) ..."