From: Kevin Smith <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 05:11:35 +0000
So what is the current scenario? Major research university gives away
it intellectual property, to publishers, has to buy it back at very
high cost, then cuts faculty for lack of funding. What is ridiculous
is that anyone could seriously maintain that OA is not a more sensible
option.
Kevin L. Smith, J.D.
Director of Scholarly Communication
Duke University
Perkins Library
Durham, NC 27708
On Jun 22, 2012, at 9:04 PM, "LIBLICENSE" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:31:12 -0700
>
> It's really troubling to see all these discussions taking place as
> though the only thing that matters is short-term cost and revenue
> projections. Does everyone really think the world does not change
> from time to time? It is simply not in a research university's
> interest to support OA, green, gold, or any other flavor. Most
> research is produced at a small number of institutions; OA is in the
> interest of organizations (most colleges and universities, the
> corporate sector, and government and NGOs) that don't produce the
> research. There is a total absence of strategic thinking here.
>
> So what's the scenario? Major research university X gives away its
> intellectual property and then cuts faculty for lack of funding.
> Ridiculous.
>
> Joe Esposito
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 3:31 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> From: Richard Poynder <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:19:29 +0100
>>
>> An interview with the Vice-Provost (Research) at University College
>> London, Professor David Price.
>>
>> Some quotes:
>>
>> "Economic modelling shows that, for research universities, the Green
>> route to OA is more cost effective than the Gold. Under Gold Research
>> Councils and Universities will have to find millions of pounds in
>> existing budgets to fund OA charges. That means that some things will
>> have to stop to make the necessary monies available."
>>
>> "The Finch recommendations are not good news for the Humanities, whose
>> unit of publication is characteristically the research monograph. Who
>> will publish Gold OA monographs, and who will pay for them?"
>>
>> "The result of the Finch recommendations would be to cripple
>> university systems with extra expense. Finch is certainly a cure to
>> the problem of access, but is it not a cure which is actually worse
>> than the disease?"
>>
>> "What Finch should have done is to model Green and Gold together, to
>> see which works out cheaper. A forthcoming report from the JISC's Open
>> Access Implementation Group on the impact of APC charges on
>> universities does this - and comes up with a different scenario to
>> Finch."
>>
>> David Price's message to UK Minister for Universities and Science
>> David Willetts: "Listen to UCL's response to Finch and carry on
>> talking to get the best transitional model from where we are now to a
>> fully OA world. The Finch recommendations are only part of the
>> answer."
>>
>> More here:
>>
>> http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/finch-report-ucls-david-price-responds.html
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