Hyperlinked version of this commentary: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/721-guid.html
Declan Butler's 7 April article in Nature -- "US seeks to make science free for all "http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100407/full/464822a.html -- says a lot about (1) "Gold" Open Access publishing fees (and about where the money will come from). http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/21.html It also says a little about (2) "Green" Open Access self-archiving mandates from research funders that require fundees to deposit the final, accepted drafts of published articles in an Open Access repository (and about how long they are embargoed before they are made Open Access). http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/harnad.html But it says nothing at all about the biggest Open Access development of all: (3) Green Open Access deposit mandates from authors' universities and research institutions. Not all research is funded, but virtually all of it originates from the planet's universities and research institutions. And although MIT and Harvard have pledged to commit some funds to pay for some Gold Open Access fees for some of their authors, Declan Butler's article neglects to mention that they first mandated Green Open Access for all of their own institutional research output, funded and unfunded, across all disciplines-- and so have over a hundred other universities worldwide. See ROARMAP http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/ Harnad, S. (2008) Waking OA’s' Slumbering Giant': The University's Mandate To Mandate Open Access New Review of Information Networking 14(1): 51 - 68 http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/17298 Stevan Harnad ========== This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to The SPARC Open Access Forum. To post, send your message to <[email protected]>. To unsubscribe, email to <[email protected]>. To switch to digest mode, email to <[email protected]>. To switch to index mode, email to <[email protected]>. Send administrative queries to <[email protected]>.
