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Green OA Repository Infrastructure are Permanent, not "Transitional"
In his interview with Richard Poynder, Cameron Neylon, as always, makes many valid and astute points. But there is one thing about which I think he is quite profoundly mistaken:CN: "While we can...
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Some Reflection from Wellcome Would be Welcome
It's time for the Wellcome Trust to think more deeply about its endlessly repeated mantra that the "cost of publication is part of the cost of funding research." The statement is true enough, but...
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The Green Road To OA -- And Then On To Fair-Gold
Anonymous: "By the time we reach 100% Green OA, there will be few journals left to cancel and it will be far too late to start charging authors a "fair gold" price for something they feel they have...
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Pre-emptive cancellation costs far, far more than it saves
Bjorn Brembs: "What you're saying here is that cancellations now are premature, because too few articles are actually available in green repositories? That libraries should hold off because otherwise...
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Pre-Green Fool's-Gold and Post-Green Fair-Gold OA
I would be surprised if there weren't subscription journals that would have accepted the Bohannon bogus paper for publication too. But I would be even more surprised if as high a proportion of...
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Fool's Gold: Publisher Ransom for Freedom from Publisher Embargo?
Bob Campbell wrote on the Wiley blog: "Stevan accuses me of much conflation yet he himself conflates APCs and subscriptions when commenting on double-dipping. APCs are not paying for the same...
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Not All That Glitters
Paul Jump's THE report on the Westminster Higher Education Forum on Implementing Open Access Policy is incomplete: 1. Professor Neilson was not arguing against Open Access (OA) mandates; he was arguing...
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Dutch Echoes of Finch: Fool's Gold vs. Fair Gold
Wouter Gerritsma, wrote in GOAL:"For two working groups of the Dutch University libraries I was asked to make a calculation for the costs of a 100% Gold open access model. It will only costs 10.5...
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The Wellcome Trust's Deep Pockets
All this potential research money wasted utterly wasted on Fools Gold. Some Reflection from Wellcome Would be Welcome.Falk Reckling: If Green OA would really work (Fools Green?), we would not need...
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Not All That Glitter (April Afterthoughts)
On April 1 Mike Eisen did a brilliant spoof on many of the faults of subscription journal publishing, making a host of valid financial as well as technical points. But the focus was all on on Gold Open...
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The Only Way to Make Inflated Subscriptions Unsustainable: Mandate Green OA
The only effective way to make inflated subscriptions unsustainable is for funders and institutions to mandate Green OA self-archiving. Tim Gowers is quite right that the pace of change is slow, and...
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The Implications of the Green Open Access REF Policy
Comments on "What would be the implications of a gold Open Access REF policy?" (Ben Johnson, HEFCE)Ben Johnsonthis post ignores the commonly heard prediction that universal green OA will somehow...
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How to make inflated journal subscriptions unsustainable
It would be a lot better if the Netherlands adopted a policy requiring Dutch researchers to make their published research OA rather than fussing about publishing costs and the costs of OA publishing....
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Netherlands Boycotting Elsevier To Sustain Bloat
Sander Dekker, Netherlands State Secretary for the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science wants Open Access and has set some deadlines for how soon he wants it for Netherlands. Thats fine. But...
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The Fool's Gold Rush Plods On...
Comment on: Enserink, Martin (2016) E.U. urged to free all scientific papers by 2020. Science 14 April 2016. Fools Gold is pre-Green Gold (pay-to-publish Gold: Im not, of course, referring to that...
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