[INDOLOGY] The legal right to publish OA

[Ram-Prasad, Chakravarthi]

In the UK, research funded by the Research Councils /have/ to be open access for all papers (not yet books). Universities are having to start budgeting for 'gold access' - open access at time of publication. As for academics' right to publish open, at present most publishers allow a 'pre-publication' version to be posted, but 'green access', open after a set period, is their preferred option. To some extent, the government insistence on open access and publishers' economic model are heading for collision; hence the universities having to think of paying for gold access. The problem is that limited funds makes it impossible for universities to pay for non-research council funded papers that academics want to put on open access but for which publishers have stringent restrictions on open access.

Ram

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On 21 Jul 2015, at 19:16, Jonathan Silk <kauzeya at gmail.com<mailto:kauzeya at gmail.com>> wrote:

I'm not so sure about this, but it may be that I'm simply out of the (relevant) loop. At least, I am not aware of being told anything about this (and I'm a professor at a Dutch university). On the other hand, and Dominik is certainly among the best informed, see: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1160-Netherlands-Boycotting-Elsevier-To-Sustain-Bloat.html



On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com<mailto:wujastyk at gmail.com>> wrote:
In Holland and Germany, it seems, academics have the legal right to reproduce their own writings in an Open Access form after a "reasonable time" (Holland) or "12 months" (Germany).  That is, if the writings are funded - even partly - by public money.

  *   https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/copyright/2015/07/02/going-dutch-netherlands-law-on-green-open-access/

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