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| Why ARC hasn't adopted an OA mandate for publicly-funded research Posted: 23 Apr 2012 05:28 AM PDT plus.google.com "Margaret Sheil explains why she opposed an OA mandate at the Australian Research Council...In doing so, she reveals two deep misunderstandings. (1) She thinks OA mandates require grantees to publish in OA journals. They don't. They require grantees to deposit their peer-reviewed manuscripts in OA repositories. There are good reasons not to mandate gold OA (through journals), and she lists some. But that's why there are no gold OA mandates anywhere in the world. All OA mandates require green OA (through repositories), and she gives no reasons to oppose them. (2) She thinks OA mandates interfere with the commercialization of patentable discoveries. But this problem has long been solved and the solution is easy. Write the policy so that it only applies to published articles. Grantees who have reasons to wait before publishing (e.g. so they can apply for a patent) can wait. When they voluntarily choose to publish, the policy kicks in. (Yes, OA is not as simple as it sounds; but neither is it as simplistic as Sheil makes it sound.) ..." |
| Open access not as simple as it sounds: outgoing ARC boss Posted: 23 Apr 2012 05:26 AM PDT theconversation.edu.au "After almost five years at the helm of the Australian Research Council (ARC), Margaret Sheil will this week step down to take up the position of Provost at the University of Melbourne....Here she explains why the ARC has no plans to make academics publish taxpayer-funded scholarly research in places where anyone can access it for free...." |
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