Further Finch Folly - Swets: "Let Us Manage the RCUK Gold For You!"
Amsciforum 2013-07-16
Summary:
Are you ready for this? Swets is offering a service to manage Gold OA payments!
What utter nonsense!
It's authors who publish and (if Gold) pay (regardless of whose funds they are using).
What on earth makes Swets imagine that authors need an institutional subscription-like service to mediate? (Publishers' hybrid Gold "Membership" schemes?)
Answer, yet again: Finch Folly, and the RCUK Ruckus about how UK authors spend their Gold allotments…
But parasitism has become a comfortable way of life, for both publishers and "aggregators," especially when they can deal with librarians as mediators and purchasing agents…
(Forget all this Fool's Gold and just mandate & provide Green OA. All the rest will take care of itself.)
http://www.swets.com/swets-launches-open-access-apc-management-service