What if your funder mandates OA and your publisher does not allow it? Daniel Lemire, a computer scientist at the University of Quebec at Montreal, knows where he stands:
If funding agencies start requiring open access, publishers could be in for a big change. They might be powerful compared to the average scientist trying to publish-or-perish, but the little scientist who must offer open access to his publications to keep his grant will suddenly grow some teeth. Would I risk my federal grant for the whims of a publisher like IEEE? Never.
(PS: The dilemma doesn't arise for the 70% of journals that allow postprint archiving, though it does arise for the rest. IEEE journals are in the green 70%.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/13/2005 10:03:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
