Open Letter to Research Councils UK: Rebuttal of ALPSP Critique
Open Letter to Research Councils UK: Rebuttal of ALPSP Critique
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.
RCUK, ALPSP, institutional repository, self-archiving, research impact, open access, institutional open access policy, citations, download
Berners-Lee, Tim
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De Roure, Dave
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Harnad, Stevan
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Shadbolt, Nigel
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2005
Berners-Lee, Tim
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De Roure, Dave
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Harnad, Stevan
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Shadbolt, Nigel
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Berners-Lee, Tim, De Roure, Dave, Harnad, Stevan and Shadbolt, Nigel
(2005)
Open Letter to Research Councils UK: Rebuttal of ALPSP Critique.
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.
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Published date: 2005
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Commentary On: http://www.alpsp.org/news/rcuk/default.htm
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RCUK, ALPSP, institutional repository, self-archiving, research impact, open access, institutional open access policy, citations, download
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Web & Internet Science
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Local EPrints ID: 261159
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/261159
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Date deposited: 22 Aug 2005
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:48
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Tim Berners-Lee
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Dave De Roure
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Stevan Harnad
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Nigel Shadbolt
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