Why the UK Should Not Heed the Finch Report (by Steve Harnad - the OA guru)
A report has emerged from the Finch committee
that looks superficially as if it were supporting OA, but is strongly
biased in favour of the interests of the publishing industry over the
interests of UK research. Instead of recommending building on the UK’s
lead in cost-free Green OA, the committee has recommended spending a
great deal of extra money to pay publishers for “Gold” OA publishing. If
the Finch committee were heeded, the UK would lose both its lead in OA
and a great deal of public money — and worldwide OA would be set back at
least a decade.
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