<div>On Sun, 6 Nov 2011, Allen Kleiman wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>> Is there a difference between 'access to information 'and 'access to the</div><div>> publishers copy'?</div><div><br></div><div>
Yes, a lot:</div><div><br></div><div>(1) "Information" can mean any information: published, confidential, public, royalty-seeking, non-royalty-seeking, author give-away, non-author-giveaway.</div><div><br></div>
<div>(2) The primary target information of the OA movement is refereed research journal articles, all of which, without exception, are written exclusively for research uptake, usage and impact, not for royalty revenues.</div>
<div><br></div><div>(3) The restrictions (embargoes) that publishers place on OA self-archiving of the author's refereed, corrected, accepted final draft are far fewer than the restrictions on the publisher's version-or-record. (The publishers of over 60% of journals, including almost all the top journals in each field, already endorse OA self-archiving of the author's final draft -- but not the publisher's version-of-record -- immediately upon publication. These are called "green" publishers, and OA self-archiving is called "green OA.")</div>
<div><br></div><div>The OA movement is not -- and cannot be -- the movement for open access to all "information."</div><div><br></div><div>It is the movement for open access to refereed research journal articles.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The author's refereed, corrected, accepted final draft is the refereed journal article.</div><div><br></div><div>Access to the author's refereed, corrected, accepted final draft of a refereed journal article is the difference between night and day for all would-be users whose institutions cannot afford subscription access to the publisher's version of record.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This is why the first and most urgent priority of the OA movement is to ensure that all research institutions and funders mandate (require) the deposit of the author's refereed, corrected, accepted final draft of every refereed journal article in their institutional repository immediately upon publication (with access to the deposit immediately set as Open Access for at least 60% of the deposits from green journals, and the repository's semi-automated "email eprint request" Button providing "Almost OA" to the remaining 40% for individuals requesting access for research purposes.semi-automatically with two key-presses, at the discretion of the author).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Stevan Harnad</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><br></span></div><div><br></div>