It is a great strategic mistake -- and a substantial waste of scarce research funds in exchange for a negligible amount of Open Access -- for an institution or organization to commit to funding gold open access publishing charges for articles published in gold open access journals unless it first mandates green open access self-archiving of all articles (regardless of whether they are published in OA or non-OA journals). (Remember that Harvard first mandated green OA and only thereafter committed to COPE.)Â http://bit.ly/OAhope
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Paul Schultze-Motel <[email protected]> wrote: > *** Apologies for cross-posting *** > > To facilitate straightforward funding of scientific publications in > open-access journals, the Helmholtz Association, Germany's largest > scientific research organisation, is now supporting the Compact for > Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE) http://www.oacompact.org. > > The research centres of the Helmholtz Association have declared their > support of COPE and their willingness to establish sustainable > mechanisms for the payment of reasonable open-access publishing fees. It > is of primary concern to the Helmholtz Association that publishing in > open-access journals will be as easy for its scientists as in journals > with conventional financing. > > The international initiative COPE has been started by Harvard > University, the MIT and other leading US universities to advance > open-access publishing. In October 2011, the Karlsruhe Institute of > Technology (KIT) has been the first research institution in Germany to > sign COPE. > > For further information see the press release: > http://tinyurl.com/d3ff2r5 > > > -- > Dr. Paul Schultze-Motel > Helmholtz Open Access Projekt - Koordinationsbüro > Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam > Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ > Bibliothek des Wissenschaftsparks Albert Einstein > Telegrafenberg > 14473 Potsdam > Tel. (0331) 288-1653 > Fax  (0331) 288-1914 > E-Mail [email protected] > ______ > Helmholtz Open Access Projekt: http://oa.helmholtz.de > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal [ Part 2: "Attached Text" ] _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
