From: Stevan Harnad <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:48:59 -0400

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Richard Poynder
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> [W]hat if funders, governments and research institutions ceased providing money for researchers to pay to publish, and instead insisted that they continue publishing in subscription journals—but always self-archived their papers in OA repositories (green OA)? Would this not mean that publishers would have to compete with repositories in access provision? And would they not as a result lower their prices? And if they did, could we not hope to see both the accessibility and affordability problems resolved?


It's enough to cease providing money for researchers to pay to publish
(gold OA) -- no need to insist that they continue publishing in
subscription journals, just that the always self-archive their paper
in their institutional OA repository (green OA) immediately upon
acceptance for publication. Nature will take care of the rest (a
transition from today's access-denial, embargoes and fool's gold to
universal green OA, fair gold, and all the re-use rights for which
some are so impatient (but which they have no better or faster way to
reach). (By the way, the repositories' automated request-copy Button
will tide over any publisher green OA embargoes with just one click
from a user to request -- and one click from the author to provide --
a single copy for research purposes.)

Harnad, S (2014) The only way to make inflated journal subscriptions
unsustainable: Mandate Green Open Access. LSE Impact of Social
Sciences Blog 4/28http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/04/28/inflated-subscriptions-unsustainable-harnad/

Sale, A., Couture, M., Rodrigues, E., Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2012)
Open Access Mandates and the "Fair Dealing" Button. In: Dynamic Fair
Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online (Rosemary J. Coombe & Darren
Wershler, Eds.) http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18511/

Stevan Harnad