[LINK] Open publishing strike - editorial board resigns

[Janet Hawtin]

On 7 April 2013 16:34, Glen Turner <gdt at gdt.id.au> wrote:

The Australian Research Council is currently reviewing the ERA model. Their
> review of the 2012 ERA will shape the 2015 process. Comments are due by 23
> April.
>
> http://www.arc.gov.au/pdf/era12/ERA%20Universities%20review.pdf


Thank you

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From: Janet Reid <lucychili at gmail.com>
Date: 7 April 2013 18:05
Subject: ERA 2012 Review
To: era at arc.gov.au


Individual response.

I am concerned that tying funding and ideas of excellence to specific
closed journal titles limits access to publically funded research work and
causes specific closed journal titles and publishers to have a monopoly on
publishing and review of Australian research.
http://www.arc.gov.au/era/era_2012/key_documents_2012.htm

Publically funded research should if anything be encouraged to publish
using open access methods or publications so that the work is available for
review, reference, reuse.

ERA priorities strongly influence the actions of research organisations in
Australia and so they should be designed with care so that they do not
require research to support expensive, unsustainable publishing models.

I feel it would be an example of world class excellence in research funding
if ERA could promote open access to research publishing, or at least that
the evaluations do not prejudice against open publishing methods and values.