Eric,
Why the second sentence? As long as they require OA, do we care how they spend
â
or waste â their money? (Except as tax payers, perhaps, but the access issue
isn't the financial issue. Conflation of the two has stymied progress in my
view. Just as dirigiste solutions have.)
Jan
On 1 May 2012, at 19:16, Eric F. Van de Velde wrote:
How about the following:
"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. Institutions and
their libraries will phase out all electronic journal subscriptions
by May 1st, 2015 and invest in OA initiatives instead."
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On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> wrote:
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 - 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
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