On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Seth Johnson wrote:
> The real issue was publication.
We will have to agree to disagree on that. I have given the reasons why
I think it has become clear that the real issue of Open Access (OA) is
Access, not publication. Various experimental and hypothetical changes
in the publication system (e.g., creating/converting OA journals) are
among the potential means of providing the OA, but they are neither the
only means nor the surest.
Stevan Harnad
Unified Dual Open-Access-Provision Policy:
BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access
journal whenever one exists.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals
BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable
toll-access journal and also self-archive it.
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
Received on Mon Jun 28 2004 - 11:33:54 BST