On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Jan Velterop <[email protected]> wrote:
I would simplify it further:
"Because Open Access (OA) maximises research usage, impact and
progress, funders and institutions must require that all researchers
provide OA to their published research results."
Any form of dirigisme as to how this is to be achieved is best
avoided. Avoiding prescriptions for the means helps keep the focus
on the goal and also leaves the door open for imaginative ways of
convincing researchers, funders and institutions, and even of
achieving more OA in possibly more effective ways.
I support this. A simple sentence powerful and this probably has what we want
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like all sentences this may need slight crafting.
The reality of the present situation is that we seem to need a mix of
strategies. What works for one discipline may not work for another. Things have
changed over the last 10 years and we need to look for changing methods,
changing finances and changing allies.
--
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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