FW: Today on The Scholarly Kitchen

[Schultz, Jack C.]

want to weigh in?

  JACK 

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OFFICIAL BLOG OF: New content is now available at The Scholarly Kitchen… Aug 16, 2017  by  David Crotty Revisiting: Is Access to the Research Paper the Same Thing as Access to the Research “Results”? Is access to the research paper really the same thing as access to the research results themselves? What about patents on publicly funded research? Revisiting a 2013 post to re-examine these questions. READ MORE

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[Dr D.A. Kingsley]

Alright Jack, I’ll bite.

Hmmm. From where I am standing this is another shadow box. Open access relates to the financial barrier to material that is already in the public domain (as long as you have enough money). It is not about preventing the ability for institutions or individuals to patent and profit from findings – the research outputs in that situation are not published until after the patent has been granted … But how convenient to raise that red flag and make institutions and individuals frightened by the OA bogeyman.

I do however agree with the philosophy expressed in the article: "A world where everyone must follow the rules tailored to one group of researchers is an imbalanced world.” With that in mind let’s turn our thoughts to 2013. When the RCUK announced that its OA policy would allow for green OA with a 6 month embargo for STEM and 12 month for HASS, guess what happened?

As predicted (1), and then pointed out by me (2), Springer (3) and Emerald (4) both lengthened their embargo periods. Worldwide. The UK produces 6% of the world’s research and RCUK funded research is a fraction of that.

Let’s reconsider that statement: “ A world where everyone must follow the rules tailored to one group of researchers is an imbalanced world.”

Enough said.

Danny

(1) Kingsley, “Open Access Globally” 1 April 2013  https://aoasg.org.au/statements-on-oa-in-australia-the-world/ 

“ EXCERPT: In addition, if the journal has an embargo on making deposited publications available that is longer than the periods specified then the researcher is expected to pay article processing charges for gold open access (if funds are available). Clearly it is advantageous for journals to offer a hybrid option and to extend their embargo periods in response to this policy."

(2) Kingsley, "Walking in quicksand – keeping up with copyright agreements” May 23, 2013 https://aoasg.org.au/2013/05/23/walking-in-quicksand-keeping-up-with-copyright-agreements/

(3) Poynder, “Open Access: Springer tightens rules on self archiving" 25 June 2013 http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/open-access-springer-tightens-rules-on.html

(4) Poynder, “Open Access: Emerald’s Green starts to fade” 17 June 2013 http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/open-access-emeralds-green-starts-to.html

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[Joyce Ogburn]

The OSI group on Open IP dealt with patents (in fact patents were part of the original charge and title for our group). 

Glenn, how soon are the reports going to be ready? Joyce

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[Glenn Hampson]

Hi Joyce,

 

The OSI2017 reports will be published soon on a rolling basis between around next week and mid-September. I’ll send everyone more details next week. In the meantime, I’ve been enjoying the conversation from afar---I’m on vacation at the moment.

 

Best,

 

Glenn

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