Prior Reference:
"A Keystroke Koan For Our Open Access Times"
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3061.html
The two funding notices below from Open Access News caught my eye
for the sheer irony of these misdirected good intentions: Of course
OA journal publishing can use all the financial help it can get, but
if these two well-meaning OA supporters -- JISC and OSI -- were to
spend the same amount of money on funding the conversion of individual
institutions rather than individual journals to OA provision (by funding
the creation of institutional OA Eprint Archives and, more important,
the implementation of official institutional self-archiving *policies*),
that would generate far, far more OA for the same money!
http://software.eprints.org/handbook/departments.php
The annual journal-article output of a university is far bigger than that
of a journal, and university OA provision propagates across journals (and
universities). Moreover, the per-article costs of funding self-archiving
are incomparably lower.
http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
When will OA-funders at last realize that they are doing far less for
OA when they just keep going for gold, instead of green?
Harnad, S., Brody, T., Vallieres, F., Carr, L.,
Hitchcock, S., Gingras, Y, Oppenheim, C., Stamerjohanns,
H., & Hilf, E. (2004) The Access/Impact Problem and the
Green and Gold Roads to Open Access. Serials Review 30.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/impact.html
Shorter version:
The green and the gold roads to Open Access. Nature Web Focus.
http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/21.html
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Funding to convert conventional journals to OA
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_09_26_fosblogarchive.html#a109654986689264758
JISC has announced another round of funding for publishers to
convert conventional journals to open access. From the tender: JISC
"invites proposals from publishers or learned societies looking
to move to an open access model for their journal(s). JISC will
award short term funding to a small number of publishers or learned
societies who agree to waive open access submission and publication
fees for UK Higher Education (HE) staff for a one-year period. There
is funding of 150,000 pounds available to support this Initiative in the
2004-05 Academic Year (1 August 2004 ? 31 July 2005). The deadline
for submission of proposals is 12 noon on Thursday 11 November
2004."
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=funding_open_access2
OSI grants program for OA journals
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_09_26_fosblogarchive.html#a109647280440189239
The Open Society Institute Information Program has announced a new
grants program for open access journals. OSI is providing $50,000
"to support the publication in open access journals of articles by
authors residing and working in countries where the Soros foundations
network is active." The funding covers article processing fees charged
by OA journals for accepted articles and will be paid directly to
the journals. The program covers all open-access journals and all
disciplines. Journal publishers may apply online.
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/grants-journals.shtml
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Stevan Harnad
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