RE: Authors and OA (RE: Mandating OA around the corner)

[Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

Please don't confuse the institutional self-archiving of peer-reviewed
journal articles -- BOAI-1 (green), done for the sake of providing OA to
the 95% of articles published in the non-OA journals -- with the creation
of alternative OA journals (BOAI-2, gold).

This same point has been discussed many, many times in the American
Scientist Open Access Forum since 1998...

Stevan Harnad

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Rick Anderson wrote:

> Brian's suggestion is absolutely possible, and in fact, I think it makes
> much more sense in an online environment than the current arrangement, in
> which most of the worst aspects of traditional journal publishing are
> simply being replicated in an online format.
> 
> Of course, these bodies would be publishers, and would face all of the
> costs that publishers face now (except for those associated with the
> transition from print to online).  Those costs would have to be recouped
> somehow.  There would also, inevitably, arise the problem of competing
> credentialling bodies.
> 
> None of this is to say that this kind of solution can't work -- I think 
> it can.  But it will be difficult to get it going, and it will not 
> maintain itself automatically.
> 
> ---
> Rick Anderson
> rickand@unr.edu