The Green Cure for Zeno's Paralysis - Open Access Archivangelism

Amsciforum 2015-01-23

Summary:

"All the author opinions cited by U. Utah librarian Rick Anderson in his recent UKSG squib are familiar ones, based largely on author ignorance. Their rebuttals have been known for years (e.g., the self-archiving FAQ since 2001 and even earlier in the AmSci OA Forum). Most are covered in this: Harnad, S. (2006) Opening Access by Overcoming Zeno's Paralysis, in Jacobs, N., Eds. Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects, chapter 8. Chandos. The very same prima facie author objections would no doubt have been voiced if authors had been polled in advance on the (universal) mandate to publish or perish. Although it’s unclear what his underlying motivation is, Utah librarian Rick Anderson has consistently sounded like a publisher’s advocate (or subscription agent!) for years and years now, and in his UKSG squib he is simply citing the persistence of author ignorance and the status quo as evidence and justification for the persistence of author ignorance and the status quo! The remedy, of course, is effective global Green OA mandates. Green OA and Green OA mandates grow anarchically, article by article and institution/funder by institution/funder, rather than journal by journal. So journals can only be cancelled once all or almost all of their contents are accessible via Green OA — and that day arrives only when Green OA and effective Green OA mandates have become global and are generating full or almost full compliance. Harnad, S (2014) The only way to make inflated journal subscriptions unsustainable: Mandate Green Open Access. LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog 4/28"

Link:

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1142-The-Green-Cure-for-Zenos-Paralysis.html

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Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.misunderstandings oa.surveys oa.attitudes oa.libraries oa.librarians oa.mandates oa.green oa.repositories oa.policies

Date tagged:

01/23/2015, 09:08

Date published:

01/23/2015, 03:44