[GOAL] Re: [BOAI] Re: Re: Clarification of the new OA policy from the RCUK

2012-08-23 Thread Couture Marc
I think there is a real danger here in this new approach taken by RCUK, and that it concerns the whole scientific community. I sense that commercial publishers have now found, or been given, a way to justify their existence (not to mention their huge profit margins). In light of the plausible g

[GOAL] Re: [BOAI] Re: Re: Clarification of the new OA policy from the RCUK

2012-08-23 Thread Eloy Rodrigues
In my opinion, on the contrary, the RCUK policy is not a good one, precisely because it puts the interests of the "Gold OA publication market", and even the "publication market" tout court, in front of the interests of research and researchers. Journals are just instrumental in research, they are