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CARROT & STICK NEEDED FOR GREEN OPEN ACCESS
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(Paul Jump, Times Higher, 2 Dec 2012)
RCUK is increasingly confirming that it is sleep-walking ("Implementing Finch" Academy of Social Sciences, 29-30 Nov 2012).
All this talk about how to spend the Gold OA money, how much there is of it, how it is to be monitored -- but not a word about how cost-free Green OA is to be monitored.
And now a leisurely 5 years in which to discover what a big, unnecessary mistake RCUK is making if it does not shore up its Green OA mandate (for which there has already been a 5-year "acculturation" period). The rest of the world -- focussed on doing just that -- will meanwhile leave the UK far behind in its wake if RCUK does not wake up.
(Wake up call:
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