[open-science] [Open-access] Fwd: [GOAL] Fwd: Business, Innovation and Skills Committee announces inquiry into Open Access

[Andy Turner]

This post and the comments in it might help:
https://plus.google.com/109377556796183035206/posts/QBdLhDgnzHg

Best Wishes

Andy
http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/

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Subject: Re: [open-science] [Open-access] Fwd: [GOAL] Fwd: Business, Innovation and Skills Committee announces inquiry into Open Access



On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org<mailto:jonathan.gray at okfn.org>> wrote:
Out of interest does anyone know why we are having all of these renewed consultations and inquiries?

I know there has been quite a lot of behind the scenes lobbying against the Finch proposals from publishers, learned societies and others.

I wonder if these consultations and inquiries are related to these complaints and criticisms? If so I wonder whether it would be worth very publicly restating the case for Finch?

Yes - I think it would. Without too much effort I think we can say that Finch set out a valuable trajectory for Open scientific research and publication and we hope that BIS would adopt it and the RCUK implementation with little change.

Otherwise we are going to suffer death by exhaustion.

J.


On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Ross Mounce <ross.mounce at gmail.com<mailto:ross.mounce at gmail.com>> wrote:


On 18 January 2013 13:25, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk<mailto:pm286 at cam.ac.uk>> wrote:
More UK requests for information on Open Access! These are likely to destroy various PhD/DPhils if we keep trying to answer them all... But we have to

Exactly.

Given I just submitted something lengthy yesterday to the House of Lords inquiry, I'm alarmed that the "witness guidance" PDF for this new BIS call for evidence states:


"Respondees are requested not to submit copies of responses to other consultations or to the Finch Report"

I feel slightly cheated having submitted some of my 'best' to the House of Lords inquiry. I have half a mind to make this point in my BIS submission.  I think I will now have to re-word, re-arrange and re-focus.

Above all we must not be put off from airing our legitimate views and evidence.


Ross

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