Hi Mathieu The ARC at least (not sure about the NHMRC) now has a budget item where you can ask for funds to publish in open access journals (gold OA). But they also support green (free) OA initiatives (such as publishing postprints on university e-repositories) and this is seen as meeting their requirements for OA publication. The ARC website has details on their policy on this. I do think that the ARC hasn't fully thought through all the implications of mandating OA, however (what about books written from ARC funding, for example?), and agree that it should be looking into supporting green OA initiatives more proactively. Cheers Deborah On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Mathieu ONeil <mathieu.oneil@anu.edu.au>wrote:
Hi Deborah, all
That's a really good point but it begs the question: how exactly do these funding bodies define "[providing] funds for the open access publishing of materials produced from research they fund"? Does this mean setting aside extra money to pay for so-called "open access" from the likes of Elsevier (at the tune of $2-3,000 per article...). Or does this mean supporting the open sourcing of research by new means? If the former (which is much easier: just set aside this amount) then it is not really addressing the exploitative nature of the research community / commercial publisher relationship.
cheers, Mathieu ________________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Deborah Lupton [deborah.lupton@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 7:18 To: nickjan Cc: <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and academia.edu
As I'm sure discussants in Australia know, research funding bodies in Australia have also begun to mandate and provide funds for the open access publishing of materials produced from research they fund, including the two major funding bodies. This has begun to change the culture in universities here concerning open access. My university held at least two forums on open access publishing this year in the attempt to inform academics about the ins-and-outs of OA.
Deborah
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:20 PM, nickjan <nickjan@xs4all.nl> wrote:
All:
The Scholarly Kitchen (collective blog for the Society for Scholarly Publishing) has just posted an insightful analysis of the Elsevier - Academia.edu saga, entitled "The End of an Era for Academia.edu and Other Academic Networks?" Available at:
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/12/11/has- elsevier-signaled-a-new-era-for-academia-edu-and-other- professional-networks/
As pointed out in the post, many of the comments to a recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com/blogs/ wiredcampus/posting-your-latest-article-you-might-have- to-take-it-down/48865) are particularly astute....
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