On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Stevan Harnad <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Fairy Tale: > > >> - The top 20 vice-chancellors (provosts, heads of institutions) in >> the world meet for 2 days >> >> >> - They agree that they will mandate that copies of all the papers >> their faculty are deposited in their institutional repositories >> immediately >> upon acceptance for publication >> >> *** The faculty ignore the mandates. This is the reality - Wellcome, who have the sanction of withholding grants and put huge efforts into promoting, still only get 55% compliance. You have spent > 10 years trying to get effective mandates and they are hardly working. The compliance in chemistry is 0%. ZERO. There is no way in my or your liftetime that senior chemists will self-archive. And that goes for many other disciplines. What are the VCs going to do? Sack them ? they bring in grant money? > - They adopt the optimal mandate: ID/OA, together with the > email-eprint-request "Almost-OA" Button for embargoed deposits. > > >> - Other universities will take the model and do it. >> >> This is called Green Gratis OA self-archiving. > Yes - and probably << 5% of VCs care about it. My argument - or fairy story - is that nothing will happen if we continue as we are. We have to get much tougher. And university mandates are seen as next to useless - universities can't police them and it alienates the faculty. The attraction of the fairy story is that it's vastly simpler and quicker to carry out. It even builds on the apathy of the faculty - the less they care, the easier it is. I am not against green OA - I am arguing that the OA community should unite and take decisive action. P. -- 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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