**Cross-Posted**

Here are 12 recent writings on the new Finch/RCUK OA Policy recommendations in the UK. The latest has just appeared in D-Lib: 

Harnad, S (2012) United Kingdom's Open Access Policy Urgently Needs a Tweak. D-Lib Magazine Volume 18, Number 9/10 September/October 2012 

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september12/harnad/09harnad.html

I wouldn't be giving it all this time and attention if I didn't think the potential perverse effects of the policy, if uncorrected, were so pernicious for OA worldwide. 

The flaw in the policy is easily fixed, but it does need to be fixed -- and promptly, and prominently -- before it has the chance to do the damage it is poised to do.

(Other OA advocates have also raised their voices for the requisite revision, including Peter Suber, Alma Swan, & Fred Friend. Please make your voices heard too.)

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Gargouri, Y, Lariviere, V, Gingras, Y, Carr, L and Harnad, S (2012) Green and Gold Open Access Percentages and Growth, by Discipline. In: 17th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators (STI), 5-8 September, 2012, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Montrel.

 http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/340294/

Harnad, S (2012) Why the UK Should Not Heed the Finch Report. LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog, Summer Issue

 http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/341128/

Harnad, S (2012) Hybrid gold open access and the Chesire cat’s grin: How to repair the new open access policy of RCUK. LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog September Issue 

http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/342582/

Harnad, S (2012) There's no justifying RCUK's support for [hybrid] gold open access. Guardian HE Network. 

http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/342581/

Harnad, S (2012) The Optimal and Inevitable outcome for Research in the Online Age. CILIP Update September 2012 

http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/342580/

Harnad, S (2102) Digital Research: How and Why the RCUK Open Access Policy Needs to Be Revised. Digital Research 2012. Tuesday, September 12, Oxford. 

Harnad, Stevan (2012) Research Works Act H.R.3699: The Private Publishing Tail Trying To Wag The Public Research Dog, Yet Again. Technical Report, ECS, University of Southampton http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/273093/ 

Harnad, S. (2012) The UK's 6% Factor and the "Gold Trumps Green" Principle: Perverse Effects. Open Access Archivangelism. 

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/933-.html 

Harnad, S. (2102) RCUK Policy In Direct Contradiction With BOAI-10 Recommendations for Institutions. Open Access Archivangelism  

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/932-.html

Harnad, S. (2012) Simple 9-Word Strike-Out Tweak to Fix RCUK Open Access Mandate. Open Access Archivangelism 

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/930-.html

Harnad, S. (2012) Finch Fiasco in Figures. Open Access Archivangelism 

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/905-.html