Open Access Archivangelism: Critique of RCUK's Response to BIS Recommendations on UK Open Access Policy
abernard102@gmail.com 2013-11-27
Summary:
"'RCUK: compliance targets for the numbers of papers made available Open Access will be increased year-on-year, as will the funding we make available to support Article Processing Charges (APCs).' This is a publishing industry timetable and terms.
The RCUK compliance target should be for OA (Green + Gold), not just for Gold payments; and the annual OA target should be 100%.
Funding-based annual targets slow OA growth whilst making it much more costly to provide OA.
What is needed is a mechanism for monitoring and ensuring timely compliance. That's what institutions (recruited by HEFCE's immediate-deposit mandate for REF2020 eligibility) will provide ... "