Open Letter to Research Councils UK: Rebuttal of ALPSP Critique

Berners-Lee, T., De Roure, D., Harnad, S. and Shadbolt, N. (2005) Open Letter to Research Councils UK: Rebuttal of ALPSP Critique. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

The Research Councils of the UK (RCUK) propose to require that the authors of all journal articles resulting from RCUK-funded research must make them openly accessible by self-archiving them on the web in order maximise their usage and impact. ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) claim that this will have a negative effect on journals, but the only evidence they provide fails to support their claim and all existing evidence is to the contrary: Journal publication coexists peacefully with author self-archiving, even when it reaches 100%, with both researchers and their journals benefitting from the resulting enhanced research usage and impact. The research journal publishing community should collaborate in sharing the benefits of self-archiving with the research community, rather than trying to delay and block them.

Item Type:	Other
Creator/Authors:	Tim Berners-Lee Dave De Roure Stevan Harnad Nigel Shadbolt
Keywords:	RCUK, ALPSP, institutional repository, self-archiving, research impact, open access, institutional open access policy, citations, download
Research Group:	Current ECS Groups > Web and Internet Science Old ECS Groups > Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia
Alternative Locations:	http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/..., http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/rcuk-sh.ht..., http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/rcuk-sh.do..., http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/rcuk-sh.pd...
Date:	2005
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Last Modified:	23 Sep 2011 10:32
Deposited On:	22 Aug 2005 by Harnad, Stevan

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