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Amsciforum 2013-06-20

Summary:

Finch Folly Flails on...
All this fuss about how the UK Gold money is being spent -- double-paying publishers needlessly, over and above what UK institutions are already paying (steeply) for subscriptions -- while not a word about whether and how the cost-free Green alternative is being complied with by that vast majority of UK scholars and scientists who either don't have a suitable Gold journal to publish in, or do not want (or cannot afford) to pay for Gold... 
 But if the HEFCE/REF proposal -- to mandate immediate-deposit in the author's institutional repository (but not necessarily immediate-OA) as a precondition for REF eligibility -- is adopted, it will serve as the compliance monitoring mechanism for Green, and the UK will have a sensible, viable, verifiable OA policy. 
 Harnad, S. (2013) The UK's New HEFCE/REF OA Mandate Proposal. Open Access Archivangelism 987 

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http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/picture-emerges-over-gold-open-access-allocations/2004944.article?MsgId=196923#MsgId_196923

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06/20/2013, 11:34

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06/20/2013, 07:34