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Professor Adams's text is *almost* perfect.<BR>
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Almost, but not totally.<BR>
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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 <B>and</B> doing work for the gold road. This is not always the case.<BR>
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He then assigns a priority: do green first.<BR>
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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?<BR>
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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.<BR>
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Jean-Claude Guédon<BR>
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Le dimanche 23 septembre 2012 à 08:12 -0400, Stevan Harnad a écrit :
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From: <B>Andrew A. Adams</B> <<A HREF="mailto:aaa@meiji.ac.jp">aaa@meiji.ac.jp</A>><BR>
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Having written too many emails individually to people explaining the Green<BR>
Road to Open Access and what I see as the optimum route and the errors<BR>
various universities make in attempting to implement the Green Road, I was<BR>
moved to write up a simple guide on my web site. Should you agree with the<BR>
approach, please feel free to refer people to this guide.<BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.a-cubed.info/OA/">http://www.a-cubed.info/OA/</A><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#888888">Professor Andrew A Adams <A HREF="mailto:aaa@meiji.ac.jp">aaa@meiji.ac.jp</A></FONT><BR>
<FONT COLOR="#888888">Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and</FONT><BR>
<FONT COLOR="#888888">Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics</FONT><BR>
<FONT COLOR="#888888">Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan <A HREF="http://www.a-cubed.info/">http://www.a-cubed.info/</A></FONT><BR>
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