PS 5. Stress cultivating the habit of self-deposit rather than proxy deposit.
6. Reward with regularly published and updated impact statistics (downloads, citations, etc.) in the institutional repository On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Stevan Harnad <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Danny Kingsley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> <Apologies for cross positing> >> >> Hello all, >> >> A new Unlocking Research blog published today “ Could the HEFCE policy >> be a Trojan Horse for gold OA?” - >> https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=488 is arguing that >> changes to the HEFCE policy are moving it from a green policy towards a >> gold one. >> > > *Defending Green Turf* > > There's no second-guessing human nature. And it's a no-brainer to guess > that publishers will do all they can to circumvent the HEFCE/REF > immediate-Green policy to steer it toward Gold and Hybrid-Gold. > > But here are a few defensive strategies that could help: > > 1. The authors are the ones who know first when their papers are accepted: > Implement a database of dated acceptance letters at the departmental level. > > 2. Do a REF rank-order exercise (not a "top four" exercise) every year, > consisting of an author-ranked list of that year's publications, by order > of likelihood of submitting for REF, together with acceptance date and > publication date. Store and display that list permanently and publicly in > the institutional repository as REF count-down, highlighting what risks > being ineligible. (HEFCE will be accommodating; its goals are the right > ones, and where temporary flexibility helps guide academic practice and > culture toward the goal of Green rather than Fool's Gold, they will provide > it.) > > 3. Do a monthly SCOPUS and WoS search for institutional published papers > and follow up on all missing papers (perhaps at the departmental level > rather than the library level -- wherever it is more effective). > > 4. Provide no funding for Gold or Hybrid-Gold. > > > > >> >> >> A teaser: >> ************************** >> The HEFCE Policy for open access in the post-2014 Research Excellence >> Framework <http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2014/201407/> kicks in 9 >> weeks from now. The policy states that, to be eligible for submission to >> the post-2014 REF, authors’ final peer-reviewed manuscripts of journal >> articles and conference proceedings with an ISSN must have been deposited >> in an institutional or subject repository on acceptance for publication. >> Deposited material should be discoverable, and free to read and download, >> for anyone with an internet connection. >> >> The *goal* of the policy is to ensure that publicly funded (by HEFCE) >> research is publicly available. The *means* HEFCE have chosen to favour >> is the green route – by putting the AAM into a repository. This does not >> involve any payment to the publishers. The *timing *of the policy – at >> acceptance – is to give us the best chance of obtaining the author’s >> accepted manuscript (AAM) before it is deleted, forgotten or lost by the >> author. <snip> >> >> *************************** >> Enjoy! >> >> Danny >> >> >> Dr Danny Kingsley >> Head of Scholarly Communications >> Cambridge University Library >> West Road, Cambridge CB39DR >> P: +44 (0) 1223 747 437 >> M: +44 (0) 7711 500 564 >> E: [email protected] >> T: @dannykay68 >> ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3636-5939 >> >> >> >> >
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