Open letter to the Publishers Association: please amend your open access decision tree | Reciprocal Space

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-03-30

Summary:

"I ask that you amend the open access decision tree you created for incorporation into the guidance notes accompanying the Open Access (OA) policy announced by Research Councils UK (RCUK) in 2013. It may seem odd to ask for a correction so late in the day but my reasons for doing so are two-fold. First, the Publishers Association (PA) decision tree has been problematic from the outset because it does not properly represent the RCUK OA policy. In particular, it suggests that if authors have access to funds from the RCUK to pay publisher’s article processing charges, they are required to publish by the gold OA route (see diagram below). This contradicts the RUCK policy and guidance (PDF) which states that 'the choice of route to Open Access remains with the researchers and their research organisations' (see page 6) ... The second motive is the publication last week of the report of the first review of the RCUK’s open access policy (available as a PDF), which was chaired by Professor Sir Bob Burgess and also had the PA’s chief executive, Richard Mollet, as a member. As you will be aware, this review has made two recommendations that are important to the matter in hand ..."

Link:

http://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2015/03/30/open-letter-publishers-association-please-amend-open-access-decision-tree/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

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

Date tagged:

03/30/2015, 19:52

Date published:

03/30/2015, 15:52