Journal publisher boycotts (actual and proposed) and journal editorial board walk-outs (actual and proposed) have repeatedly been tried across the years, and have had very limited (if any) success (if the goal was to generate OA).
What is successful in generating OA is for researchers to self-archive their final drafts (Green OA) in their institutional repositories and for their institutions and funders to mandate that they do so. The walk-out of the Journal of Library Administration (JLA) is an especially ill-considered step (if the goal was to generate OA). http://j.mp/YHsOQG Yes, it might succeed in getting the journal title to migrate to (or reconstitute with) a Gold OA publisher. But, as noted below, it is also a slap in the face to Taylor & Francis (Routledge): Library and Information Science, United Kingdom, which has a Green (no embargo) policy for its 35 journals (the only T&F journals that are Green). http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/search.php?id=1134&fIDnum=|&mode=simple&la=en With Green OA self-archiving, JLA authors could have had 100% immediate-Green OA at no extra cost, and no risk of the journal going belly-up -- or migrating to a Gold Access publisher that authors would have to find the funds to pay to publish with (at a time when their institutions continue to have to pay their ongoing subscriptions to all other subscription journals they can afford). So editorial board resignation or migration for the sake of OA is premature, short-sighted and indeed counter-productive today, especially when it punishes a Green publisher. Yet, at a single journal level, this is just a drop in the ocean, insofar as well-intentioned pro-OA strategies with perverse effects are concerned. The jewel in this unenviable crown for futile and self-defeating pro-OA gestures is surely the Finch/RCUK policy, which has done more to promote Green OA embargoes than any other "pro-OA" gesture so far. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september12/harnad/09harnad.html That ill-considered policy has, among other things, reinforced Elsevier's double-talk rights-retention policy, according to which Elsevier authors all retain the right to provide immediate un-embargoed Green OA -- but not if their institution or funder requires them to exercise that right ("you can if you wish, but not if you must"). http://elsevierconnect.com/what-do-the-new-uk-open-access-policies-mean-for-authors/ Of course, Elsevier's fork-tongued nonsense can safely be ignored by any sensible author (mandated or un-mandated). But of course if authors were sensible, we wouldn't need Green OA mandates in the first place... SH On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Hamaker, Charles <[email protected]> wrote: > My mistake, Informa appears to be the umbrella organization for T&F: > http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/ > > Also, the policy on author posting might date from 2009 > Chuck Hamaker > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of > Heather Morrison [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 3:32 PM > To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) > Subject: [GOAL] Informa.plc - Taylor and Francis no-embargo for LIS > journals > > In response to a post on the mass resignation of the Journal of Library > Administration, Informa.plc, the multinational conglomerate working under > its scholar-friendly-sounding brand "Taylor & Francis", posted this note > about self-archiving: > > "Under our LIS pilot program, authors can freely post their (“post-print”) > manuscript immediately on publication – ie without any embargo." > > from: > > https://theconversation.com/journal-editorial-board-quits-over-open-access-principle-13086 > > Is there a connection? If other disciplines wish to remove embargoes to > self-archiving, should they convince one of their journals to resign, too? > > best, > > Heather G. Morrison > The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics > http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com >
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