On Parasitism and Double-Dipping

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

On 5-May-08, at 7:17 PM, Ian.Russell wrote:

> I think, though, that parasitic describes the nature of 
> unfunded mandates requiring deposit into repositories which 
> rely on certification from journals rather well.  It was 
> intended to be descriptive rather than pejorative and is 
> actually highly accurate.
Ian, what do you mean by "unfunded mandates" to deposit?

And what would you consider funded, nonparasitic mandates?

I understood you to have replied, earlier, that by this you do 
*not* mean "double-dipping" -- i.e., you do *not* mean publishers 
expecting to be paid via institutional subscriptions, as usual, 
and *also* to be paid extra in exchange for authors making their 
own published, certified articles OA by self-archiving them.

Single-dipping means one or the other: either recover costs from 
subscriptions or recover costs from Gold OA publication charges, 
but not both.

So if it is not double-dipping that you mean by funded, 
nonparasitic institutional mandates to make their authors' own 
published, certified articles OA by self-archiving them, please 
do say what it is that you do mean.

Stevan Harnad