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color=#0000ff size=2>Dear Knowing Sirs:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Is this a matter of 'commerce'?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Suppose I own a car and offer it for sale to a rental
company with the verification of its reliability and safety by two or three
mechanics of questionable qualifications and skill. However, I want to include a
condition of sale that the buyer will make the car available to all the poor
people in my town for free since they can't afford to pay for the
rental.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>When a Publisher offers to print an article -- certified by
referees of questionable repute -- and absorb the cost of publication,
distribution, and etc., isn't he entitled to retain the rights of
sale?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk
[mailto:boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Tevni
Grajales<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, November 06, 2011 2:11 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
boai-forum@ecs.soton.ac.uk; AmericanScientist Open Access
Forum<BR><B>Subject:</B> [BOAI] Re: The affordability problem vs. the
accessibility problem<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P>Sorry, I did not realize that "information" could taken outside the
context of the Budapest Open Access Initiative in this BOAI-forum. I was talking
about " to make research articles in all academic fields freely available in the
internet" (<A href="http://www.doaj.org">www.doaj.org</A>) . The point is
FREELY AVAILABLE. Do not miss the point, the open access initiative must
be faithful to its origin and spirit. </P>
<P>Tevni</P>
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size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>to make research articles in all
academic fields freely available on the internet</FONT><STRONG>From:</STRONG>
boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] on
behalf of Stevan Harnad [amsciforum@gmail.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, November
06, 2011 12:51 PM<BR><B>To:</B> BOAI Forum; American Scientist Open Access
Forum<BR><B>Subject:</B> [BOAI] Re: The affordability problem vs. the
accessibility problem<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>On Sun, 6 Nov 2011, Allen Kleiman wrote:</DIV>
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<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>
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<DIV>(1) "Information" can mean any information: published,
confidential, public, royalty-seeking, non-royalty-seeking, author
give-away, non-author-giveaway.</DIV>
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<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>
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<DIV>The author's refereed, corrected, accepted final draft is the refereed
journal article.</DIV>
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<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>
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<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>
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<DIV>Stevan Harnad</DIV>
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