There will be a Workshop organized by the Chemical Sciences Roundtable
National Research Council on Monday and Tuesday October 25th & 26th 2004
at the National Academies 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, DC.
The theme will be:
Are Chemical Journals Too Expensive and Inaccessible?
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bcst/
There will be 10 speakers. My own talk will be entitled:
"The Green and Gold Roads to Open Access: Don't Confuse Them!"
ABSTRACT: There are two roads to Open Access (OA): The "golden" road
is for the world's 24,000 peer-reviewed journals to convert from
the user-institution cost-recovery model to the author-institution
cost-recovery model (OA Journal Publishing), as about 5% of them have
done [
http://www.doaj.org] . There is still some risk and uncertainty
associated with this untested gold-journal cost-recovery model,
however, so most journals (92%) [
http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php]
have instead taken the "green" road, giving their authors the green
light to provide OA for their own individual articles if they wish,
by self-archiving them in their own institutional OA Eprint Archives
[
http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=browse]. There is
still much confusion about these two very different roads to OA,
with some mistakenly thinking that OA = OA Publishing (gold). Some
also think OA is only or mainly to solve the libraries' serials crisis
(the journal pricing/affordability problem), whereas the real problem
OA is intended to solve is the researchers' access/impact problem. The
proposed US, UK, Australian and Canadian mandates to self-archive
all funded research are also widely misunderstood as mandating gold,
pressuring publishers toward adopting the OA Journal cost-recovery
model, whereas they are in fact mandating green, pressuring fundees
to provide OA for their findings by self-archiving them.
Stevan Harnad
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UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional
policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output,
please describe your policy at:
http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
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
AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM:
A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing
open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004)
is available at:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html
To join the Forum:
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Received on Sun Sep 05 2004 - 05:41:50 BST