<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>** Cross-posted **</div><div><br></div>On 2011-03-20, at 5:40 AM, [identity deleted] wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Dear Mr. Harnad,<br>Sorry for my ignorance. But is it possible to speak about the golden road to open access and whether any institutions have taken up that road at all.<br>Thank you in advance.<br>Best regards,<br>[identity deleted]<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The golden road to Open Access (OA) is to publish in Gold OA journals (free for the user online).</div><div><br></div><div>The green road to OA is to publish in conventional (non-OA) journals and to make the articles OA (free for the user online) by self-archiving them in the author's institutional repository.</div><div><br></div><div>About 20% of journals (but not the top 20%) are Gold OA journals.</div><div><br></div><div>Institutions and funders can mandate (require) Green OA self-archiving, but they cannot mandate Gold OA publishing. </div><div><br></div><div>(They can neither require 80% publishers to be Gold OA nor can they require their researchers to publish in 20% Gold OA journals and not in 80% non-OA journals. There is also little or no extra institutional money to pay for Gold OA publication fees while the institutions' potential funds are still being spent on their annual journal subscriptions.)</div><div><br></div><div>Mandating Green OA can provide 100% OA (Green OA) with certainty.</div><div><br></div><div>Once it is universally mandated, 100% Green OA will probably (but not with certainty) lead to institutional subscription cancelations, making subscriptions no longer sustainable as the way of covering the remaining costs of publication. If/when that comes to pass, journals will convert to Gold OA, and the Gold OA publication fees will be paid out of the institutional windfall subscription cancelation savings.</div><div> </div><div>See:</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><a href="http://www.openscholarship.org/">http://www.openscholarship.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://roarmap.eprints.org/">http://roarmap.eprints.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Harnad, S. (2011, in press) Gold Open Access Publishing Must Not Be Allowed to Retard the Progress of Green Open Access Self-Archiving. <i>Logos</i> <a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21818/">http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21818/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Sale, A., Couture, M., Rodrigues, E., Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2011, in press) Open Access Mandates and the "Fair Dealing" Button. In:<i> Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online</i> (Rosemary J. Coombe & Darren Wershler, Eds.) <a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18511/">http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18511/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Harnad, S. (2010) The Immediate Practical Implication of the Houghton Report: Provide Green Open Access Now. <i>Prometheus</i>, 28 (1). pp. 55-59. <a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18514/">http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18514/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Harnad, S. (2010) Open Access to Research: Changing Researcher Behavior Through University and Funder Mandates. In Parycek, P. & Prosser, A. (Eds.): EDEM2010: <i>Proceedings of the 4th Inernational Conference on E-Democracy. Austrian Computer Society</i>, 13-22 <a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21003/">http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21003/</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Harnad, S. (2010) No-Fault Peer Review Charges: The Price of Selectivity Need Not Be Access Denied or Delayed. <i>D-Lib Magazine</i> 16 (7/8). <a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21348/">http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21348/</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Harnad, S. (2009) The PostGutenberg Open Access Journal. In: Cope, B. & Phillips, A (Eds.) <i>The Future of the Academic Journal</i>. Chandos. <a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/15617/">http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/15617/</a></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Stevan Harnad</div></body></html>