[BOAI] Re: Andrew Adams: Simple Explanation of the Green Road

[Jean-Claude Guédon]

Professor Adams's text is *almost* perfect.

Almost, but not totally.

When professor Adams says: "Do not start a new Gold OA journal just to
provide a gold OA route", he assumes that all supporters of OA are in a
position of doing concrete work for the green road and doing work for
the gold road. This is not always the case.

He then assigns a priority: do green first.

Alas, in the real world, things are not so neat and simple. Some people
may strongly believe in both roads, and want genuinely to support the
green road, but have the means (e.g. institutional) only to help the
gold road. Why they should hold back doing so while doing all they can
for the green road, and wait until the green road succeeds alone is a
little difficult to understand. Other people have the means to do both,
and do both. Why shouldn't they do so?

More pragmatic is the position that states that we should push for both
the green and gold road, using our resources in the best possible way
and as efficiently as possible. Priorities should emerge from the
particulars of each situation, and not from a "one size fits all"
programme.

Jean-Claude Guédon






Le dimanche 23 septembre 2012 à 08:12 -0400, Stevan Harnad a écrit :
> **Cross-Posted**
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 
> From: Andrew A. Adams <aaa at meiji.ac.jp>
> 
> 
> Having written too many emails individually to people explaining the
> Green
> Road to Open Access and what I see as the optimum route and the errors
> various universities make in attempting to implement the Green Road, I
> was
> moved to write up a simple guide on my web site. Should you agree with
> the
> approach, please feel free to refer people to this guide.
> 
> http://www.a-cubed.info/OA/
> 
> --
> Professor Andrew A Adams                      aaa at meiji.ac.jp
> Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
> Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
> Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/
> 
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