Yet Another Case of Green/Gold Deuteranopia

From: Stevan Harnad <amsciforum_at_GMAIL.COM>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 20:44:23 -0500

    Yet Another Case of Green/Gold Deuteranopia

Andrew Brown, wrote in the Guardian (5 Feb):
      "[O]pen access is unsatisfactory [because] open-access
      journals [are] not yet widespread enough... The only
      answer I can think of is to bring electronic
      subscriptions into the library system."



There is another answer: Open Access (OA) does not mean only, or
mainly, open-access journals ("Gold OA"). The other, more widespread
way to provide OA is for the authors of articles published in non-OA
journals to make them OA by depositing an electronic version in an OA
Repository ("Green OA"), thereby making them free for all (including
those whose libraries cannot afford a subscription) -- as 34 research
funding councils worldwide (including all the UK Research Councils,
the European Research Council and the US National Institutes of
Health) as well as 31 Universities and Faculties (including
Southampton, Glasgow and Stirling in the UK, and Harvard and Stanford
in the US) have already adopted mandates requiring the authors they
fund and employ to do.

Stevan Harnad
American Scientist Open Access Forum
Received on Sat Feb 07 2009 - 01:47:21 GMT