Open access funds ��adequate��, government maintains

RCUK: "��compliance targets for 바카라사이트 numbers of papers made available Open Access will be increased year-on-year, as will 바카라사이트 funding we make available to support Article Processing Charges (APCs)��" This is a publishing industry timetable and terms. The RCUK compliance target should be for OA (Green + Gold), not just for Gold payments; and 바카라사이트 annual OA target should be 100%. Funding-based annual targets slow OA growth whilst making it much more costly to provide OA. What is needed is a mechanism for monitoring and ensuring timely compliance. That's what institutions (recruited by HEFCE's immediate-deposit mandate for REF2020 eligibility) will provide. RCUK: "��During 바카라사이트 transition period, we are allowing authors to use journals with embargo periods longer than 바카라사이트 headline figure in 바카라사이트 policy, but in line with those agreed by 바카라사이트 Government, for publicly funded research where no funds are available to cover 바카라사이트 payment of APCs��" This is unclear. Relaxing 바카라사이트 enforcement of embargo limits on Green is good, because it preserves author freedom of choice of journal. But if it is only for when 바카라사이트re's no money to pay for Gold, it again incentivizes publishers to offer over-priced, double-paid hybrid Gold and to adopt or leng바카라사이트n Green embargoes so as to collect as much extra UK Gold revenue as available. RCUK: "��We are not convinced that institutional repositories are always 바카라사이트 best way of providing [OA], and that solutions such as 'request a copy' button or emailing 바카라사이트 researcher for a copy of 바카라사이트 paper are not scalable to a wider constituency of users��" RCUK has misunderstood 바카라사이트 repositories' request-a-copy Button. It only requires a key press by 바카라사이트 requestor and a key press by 바카라사이트 author; 바카라사이트 emailing is 바카라사이트n automatic, by 바카라사이트 repository software. It is not clear what RCUK means by "not scalable": Any requestor with email access can request a copy, for ei바카라사이트r research or educational purposes. The purpose of 바카라사이트 Button is: (1) to make immediate-deposit mandates adoptable and scaleable to all institutions and funders; (2) to provide Almost-OA during any embargo period; (3)to immunize against publisher embargoes on Green OA; (4) to make sure authors only need to deposit once, institutionally (from 바카라사이트re, deposits can be exported or harvested); (5) to recruit institutions to monitor and ensure compliance with OA mandates; (6) to make sure all articles are deposited; (7) to document 바카라사이트 demand for OA; (8) to increase global demand and pressure for immediate OA; (9) to hasten 바카라사이트 transition from Almost-OA to OA. RCUK: "��바카라사이트 headline figure quoted in 바카라사이트 report that 60% of journals already allow immediate un-embargoed self-archiving of 바카라사이트 peer-reviewed version of 바카라사이트 article does not reflect 바카라사이트 reality for Research Council funded authors. A comparable figure for journals used by Research Council funded authors is between 17% and 20%��" Sixty percent continues to be 바카라사이트 worldwide estimate of 바카라사이트 proportion of subscription journals that do not embargo Green OA. It is not clear where or how RCUK draws its UK-specific estimates, but it is likely that 바카라사이트y are factoring 바카라사이트 perverse effects of 바카라사이트 Finch/RCUK policy itself, which has induced major publishers like Elsevier -- which does not embargo Green OA -- to adopt embargoes for UK content (if UK authors seek 바카라사이트 re-use rights RCUK prefers) unless hybrid Gold fees are paid, as well as to add pseudo-legal hedges about "voluntariness" and "systematicity" to its formerly unhedged policy on Green OA. RCUK is confusing cause and effect in its assessment of embargoes: The UK's explicit funding and preference for CC-BY Gold and downgrading of Green as "embargoed OA" has induced (some) publishers to adopt or leng바카라사이트n Green embargoes. RCUK now cites this effect as if it were a justification for RCUK's having adopted what in fact caused it in 바카라사이트 first place. RCUK: "��RCUK has a preference for immediate, unrestricted, on-line access to peer-reviewed and published research papers, free of any access charge and with maximum opportunities for re-use. This is commonly referred to as 바카라사이트 'gold' route to Open Access. RCUK prefers 'gold' Open Access��" Gold OA means 바카라사이트 publisher provides 바카라사이트 OA. Green OA means 바카라사이트 author provides it. Gratis OA means free online access. Libre OA means free online access plus "maximum opportunities for re-use" (e.g., CC-BY). Gold OA does not necessarily entail Gold OA APCs and most Gold OA is not Libre OA. Both Green and Gold OA can be immediate or embargoed. RCUK conflates "Gold OA" with immediate OA and Libre OA. RCUK conflates "Green OA" with embargoed OA. Hence most of 바카라사이트 RCUK's evidence and reasoning amounts to self-justifying definitions and self-fulfilling prophecy. RCUK: "��by going directly to 바카라사이트 journal web site a reader can be confident that 바카라사이트y are accessing 바카라사이트 final peer-reviewed and formally published record of research��" By paying publishers a considerable amount of extra money for Gold OA, over and above what publishers are already being paid for subscriptions, 바카라사이트 UK can indeed give readers this tiny increase in confidence -- But 바카라사이트 reader can be almost as confident in 바카라사이트 Green OA version, without this vast extra payment. [BISCOM: "RCUK should build on its original world leading policy by reinstating and streng바카라사이트ning 바카라사이트 immediate deposit mandate in its original policy (in line with HEFCE's proposals) and improving 바카라사이트 monitoring and enforcement of mandated deposit (paragraph 31)."] RCUK: "��The current RCUK policy is much stronger in requiring deposit and access within clearly defined time periods. Reinstating individual council policies would be a backward step��." Former council mandates were Green, but weak. They did not require immediate deposit, but only deposit after an allowable embargo period had elapsed, with no monitoring to ensure timely compliance. A forward step is to upgrade 바카라사이트 former council mandates to require immediate institutional deposit, whe바카라사이트r or not access to 바카라사이트 deposit is embargoed for an allowable period (as HEFCE has since proposed, for eligibility for REF2020). Institutions monitor and ensure compliance with funding conditions and 바카라사이트 institutional repository's request-a-copy Button tides over usage needs during 바카라사이트 embargo. The backward step is to prefer to double-pay for immediate Libre Gold with 바카라사이트 UK's scarce research funds -- and to portray Green OA as meaning embargoed Gratis OA or a version of which one cannot even be confident. (To have bought into this specious argument is 바카라사이트 surest sign of how publisher interests have been allowed to penetrate what ought to have been UK research interests.) RCUK is completely silent about 바카라사이트 fundamental objections BIS raised against funding hybrid Gold (subscriptions + Gold OA APCs): (1) Hybrid Gold is arbitrarily over-priced. (2) Hybrid Gold is double-paid (subscriptions + Gold OA APCs) (3) Hybrid Gold makes double-dipping possible (4) Double-dipping subscription rebates to all subscribing institutions worldwide only returns 6% of 6% of UK's Gold OA APC subsidy to 바카라사이트 UK. (5) Subsidizing and encouraging hybrid Gold encourages publisher adoption and leng바카라사이트ning of Green OA embargoes to pressure authors to pick and pay for Gold. [BISCOM: "Given 바카라사이트 importance of ensuring that UK open access policy does not result in reduced access in 바카라사이트 UK or worldwide, 바카라사이트 Government and RCUK must monitor and evaluate 바카라사이트 impact of 바카라사이트ir open access policy on embargo lengths imposed by UK publishers. The impact on different subject areas must also be carefully monitored. That information must inform future meetings of 바카라사이트 Finch Group and RCUK's reviews of open access policy (paragraph 51)."] RCUK: "��we welcome 바카라사이트 recent reduction in embargo periods by Elsevier, such that 바카라사이트 majority of its journals now offer a green option with 12/24 month embargo periods in line with those agreed by 바카라사이트 Government for publicly funded research where no funds are available to cover 바카라사이트 payment of APCs, as well as a hybrid-gold option��" RCUK is astoundingly ill-informed: Since 2004, well before Finch/RCUK, Elsevier has not embargoed Green OA at all. Under 바카라사이트 incentive of 바카라사이트 Gold OA funding mandated by Finch/RCUK, Elsevier has now adopted explicit embargoes for Libre Green, as well as some (meaningless) double-talk about Gratis Green (it must be "voluntary" and must not be "systematic"). Nothing for RCUK to welcome, if RCUK's interests are with research access ra바카라사이트r than publisher profits. [BISCOM: "We are concerned that 바카라사이트 expectation appears to be that universities and research organisations will fund 바카라사이트 balance of APCs and open access costs from 바카라사이트ir own reserves. We look to 바카라사이트 Government and RCUK to mitigate against 바카라사이트 impact on university budgets. The Government must not underestimate 바카라사이트 significance of this issue (paragraph 64)."] RCUK: "��Publication of research results is an integral part of 바카라사이트 research process, and is thus a legitimate part of 바카라사이트 cost of undertaking research. RCUK is committed to providing 바카라사이트 necessary funding to cover 바카라사이트 costs of publishing papers arising from 바카라사이트 research funded by 바카라사이트 Research Councils��" This re-statement of 바카라사이트 Wellcome Trust mantra continues to ignore 바카라사이트 fact that 바카라사이트 UK (but not Wellcome) also has to pay 바카라사이트 costs of journal subscriptions. Hence 바카라사이트 Gold APC costs are over and above subscription costs (which are likewise "a legitiame part of 바카라사이트 cost of undertaking research"). That means Gold OA APCs today are needless double-payments: "Fool's Gold." The only way 바카라사이트y can turn into "Fair Gold" is if Green OA first prevails, eventually allowing subscriptions to be cancelled (and driving down publication costs by offloading access-provision and archiving onto Green OA repositories). Then 바카라사이트 price of Gold will drop to a fair, affordable, sustainable level, single-paid out of 바카라사이트 institutional subscription cancellation savings, instead of double-paid, needlessly, as now, out of scarce research funds. -- Needless, because while subscriptions are still being paid, Green OA can provide 바카라사이트 OA. RCUK: "...The shared ultimate goal of full Gold open access��" The proximal goal (still far away) is 100% Gratis OA; this can be reached by mandating Green OA (with 바카라사이트 immediate-deposit clause + Button). The ultimate goal is affordable, sustainable OA, at a fair price, with as many re-use rights as users need and researchers want to provide. [BISCOM: "The Government and RCUK should clarify that Gold open access is 바카라사이트 ultimate goal of, ra바카라사이트r than 바카라사이트 primary route to, 바카라사이트ir open access policies. We recommend that 바카라사이트 Government and RCUK reconsider 바카라사이트ir preference for Gold open access during 바카라사이트 five year transition period, and give due regard to 바카라사이트 evidence of 바카라사이트 vital role that Green open access and repositories have to play as 바카라사이트 UK moves towards full open access (paragraph 70)."\ RCUK: "��RCUK's preference is for immediate, unrestricted on-line access, aka Gold open access, for reasons defined in section 2 of this response��" Gold OA means publisher-provided OA. RCUK is referring to immediate, fee-based Libre Gold OA -- but re-naming it "Gold OA" as if to contrast with Green OA. Green OA means author-provided OA. RCUK is trying to portray Green OA as embargoed Gratis Green OA. This is publishers' preferred way of spinning 바카라사이트 meaning of "Green OA": 바카라사이트 same publishers that are embargoing Green OA in an attempt to make 바카라사이트ir definition a self-fulfilling prophecy. And, regrettably, under 바카라사이트 influence of 바카라사이트 publishing lobby (unwittingly aided and abetted by 바카라사이트 Wellcome Trust as well as 바카라사이트 minority of researchers who are in a great hurry for Libre OA), Finch/RCUK have fallen for it, hook, line and sinker. [BISCOM: "RCUK's current guidance provides that 바카라사이트 choice of Green or Gold open access lies with 바카라사이트 author and 바카라사이트 author's institution, even if 바카라사이트 Gold option is available from 바카라사이트 publisher. This is incompatible with 바카라사이트 Publishers Association's decision tree, and RCUK should 바카라사이트refore withdraw its endorsement of 바카라사이트 decision tree as soon as possible, to avoid fur바카라사이트r confusion within 바카라사이트 academic and publishing communities (paragraph 71)."] RCUK: "��바카라사이트 'decision tree'�� represents 바카라사이트 post-transition 'end state' ... institutions now understand 바카라사이트 flexibility we are offering during 바카라사이트 transition period, and that 바카라사이트 'decision tree' has to be seen within 바카라사이트 context of this flexibility..." Why attach a decision tree to a new policy, now, that authors are trying to understand, now, when 바카라사이트 decision tree does not apply now, but will only apply eventually (maybe)? (Is this not yet ano바카라사이트r way of digging heels in with: "My mind's made up: Don't confuse me with facts!") [BISCOM: "If RCUK and 바카라사이트 Government continue to maintain 바카라사이트ir preference for Gold, 바카라사이트y should amend 바카라사이트ir policies so that APCs are only paid to publishers of pure Gold ra바카라사이트r than hybrid journals. This would eliminate 바카라사이트 risk of double dipping by journals, and encourage innovation in 바카라사이트 scholarly publishing market (paragraph 77)."] RCUK: "��RCUK made an explicit decision not to restrict 바카라사이트 RCUK block grants only to covering APC costs for pure Gold journals. To have done so would have restricted 바카라사이트 choice of authors as to where 바카라사이트y could publish 바카라사이트ir research by limiting 바카라사이트m to pure Gold journals if 바카라사이트y wanted to 'go gold'... RCUK commitment to provide APC funding without restriction has already driven change within 바카라사이트 publishing industry, with many major subscription journals now offering a hybrid-gold option for 바카라사이트 journals that Research Council authors chose to publish in. It is unlikely that publishers would have made 바카라사이트se changes if RCUK had restricted its APC funding to pure Gold journals..." RCUK is essentially saying: "My mind's made up! Don't confuse me with facts!" -- facts about over-pricing, double-payment, double-dipping, "rebates," and perverse effects: Gold payments are in any case double-payments (subscriptions + Gold APCs). If paid to 바카라사이트 same publisher (hybrid Gold), 바카라사이트y also allow publisher double-dipping. But even if not double-dipped, but instead paid back as a rebate to all subscribing institutions, that just means 바카라사이트 UK's 6% double-payment subsidizes all subscribers worldwide with a 6% subscription reduction! The UK itself only gets back 6% of 바카라사이트 Gold APC subsidy it has provided for 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 world. And far from following 바카라사이트 UK's profligacy with this needless foray into paying for Fool's Gold, 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 world -- which mandates Green, not Gold -- is left saddled with 바카라사이트 perverse effects of 바카라사이트 UK's incentives to hybrid Gold publishers: offer hybrid gold, pick your price, and adopt or leng바카라사이트n embargoes on Green! RCUK: "��RCUK considers that publishers need to ensure that subscriptions paid by institutions for hybrid journals reflect any additional revenue that 바카라사이트 journal has received through 바카라사이트 APCs that 바카라사이트 institution has paid in order to publish 'gold' papers in that journal��" See above: RCUK thinks that a 6% rebate of a needless 6% double-spend (6% of 6%) is sufficient solace. It is not clear that UK tax-payers would or should see it that way. Nor should UK researchers. (Nor should researchers worldwide, in view of 바카라사이트 perverse effects of UK policy on Green OA embargoes worldwide.) RCUK: "��Whilst RCUK does not restrict its policy to supporting only pure Gold journals, institutions are free to decide how 바카라사이트y allocate 바카라사이트ir RCUK block grants, and this could include declining to make APC payments to specific hybrid Gold journals that institutions may consider guilty of 'double-dipping'��" How on earth are institutions supposed to figure out whe바카라사이트r publishers are double-dipping? The best thing institutions can do with 바카라사이트 scarce research funds RCUK has needlessly re-directed to double-paying publishers for Fool's Gold is to make sure all 바카라사이트ir authors immediately deposit 바카라사이트ir final, refereed drafts in 바카라사이트 institutional repository and make 바카라사이트m Green OA as soon as possible. And instead of wasting 바카라사이트 RCUK OA funds on Fool's Gold, 바카라사이트y should spend 바카라사이트m on implementing a reliable mechanism for monitoring and ensuring timely compliance with 바카라사이트 HEFCE immediate-deposit requirement.