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Bernard Lane, Open access a threat to grants, The Australian, January 23, 2007. Excerpt:
Comment. Don't confuse this with an objection to the current OA policy of the the Australian Research Council (ARC). That policy (see Paragraph 1.4.5.3) mandates OA through author self-archiving and does not offer to pay publication fees at fee-based OA journals. We can talk about whether the ARC could answer the objection if it decided that it wanted to pay those fees. But for now that seems abstract and academic. If an inquiry shows that ARC can't afford to start paying fees, then it shouldn't start. The policy is fine as it stands and already takes the most important step by mandating OA archiving. |