Ross Mounce

"Just shared this with my ecology friends at Bath (via email). It makes me so sad to read. But thank you for writing it. I really hope we can get future generations into preprint culture, open access publishing, and the "publish, then filter" ethos. It'll be hard work, but examples like this are *exactly* why I've spent a lot of my time campaigning for open science rather than just 'getting my head down' and 'banging out' research papers. The system has to change. It's absurd atm." - Ross Mounce

Was just motivated to check of the three papers that I can remember were rejected (without review) by Nature they have 100, 53, and 28 citations respectively... - Cameron Neylon

"Thanks for giving me the impetus to do this. It's now on github here: https://github.com/rossmounce/..." - Ross Mounce

"Great to hear. Please do let me know when you have updated this information on your website. I'm sure FACT will change their listings for T&F when T&F themselves bother to update their information! Can't T&F have done all this *before* April 1st? Why implement these changes only after the policy is in action? It's not like T&F didn't know this was coming. The RCUK policy has been out since the 16th July 2012 ! http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media/ne... Does it really take 260 days / 37 weeks to change one or two details across a few websites?" - Ross Mounce

"Hi Vicky. On the T&F website it clearly says "What restrictions on reuse apply? For non-commercial purposes only" this would not be compliant with the RCUK 'gold' route of immediate open access. RCUK requires CC BY. CC BY-NC , or other licences that restrict commercial re-use are not compliant. As for the 'green' route of self-archiving, details for T&F journals are rather hidden away here: http://journalauthors.tandf.co... in a PDF file, and in this it says the embargo period for this particular journal is 12 months. I thought BBSRC required a maximum embargo length of 6 months for the greenOA route to be acceptable? This would seem to be indicated by the FACT tool too. Which if any of your OA options for this journal are RCUK compliant?" - Ross Mounce

"Yes, well - we can but try... More seriously indirectly, it might well help dissemination & awareness of the new RCUK policy, and the fact that many journals do not have compliant routes, (and of those that do, they are sometimes only really expensive 'hybrid' OA options). In the mean time, I'm just going to sit back and wait for the reply & look for other similar journals in my subject-space that I might be able to contact" - Ross Mounce