Open Access (7th March 2013): Written evidence submitted by Dr Martin Paul Eve

Use the link to access the full text document submitted as written evidence at the request of the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee, UK.  The executive Summary reads as follows: "1. The recommendations of the Finch Report are broadly sound, but certain vocal groups are scaremongering against aspects that make sense in an ill-conceived attempt to preserve an already broken status quo. 2. It is not right that taxpayer-funded, or UK HEI supported, research should remain inaccessible to the general public. Gold Open Access is a sound way of redistributing the existing financial inequalities within the system. 3. It is not right that taxpayer-funded, or UK HEI supported, research should remain unusable by the general public. It is important that the Creative Commons Attribution License remains at the core of the Open Access policy. 4. The Finch Report, however, failed to consider some of the statements in the Budapest Open Access Initiative Statement that could have provided alternative funding models for the transition."  Additional statements can be found at <http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmbis/writev/openaccess/contents.htm>