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