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