[GOAL] Re: Titanium Killer Apps and OA

[Arthur Sale]

My apologies to you, Stevan, for appearing to ignore you, and the list,
since Monday. The trouble was that when my old email address was edited to
the one I use mostly now, the new address was mangled, and as a result I got
no posts from GOAL. It was only when I tried to post a second time that the
problem came to light. Richard has fixed the error, I think (thanks
Richard). So this message is to address part of your very long email, and to
serve as a test that GOAL has me right at last. Then I can get to answering
the rest of your post.

 

IS THE TITANIUM ROAD A TECHNOLOGICALLY SUPERCHARGED GREEN ROAD?

Well, if you want to play on words, you can think of it that way. I won't.
But you had better start thinking of the Gold Road as an ultimate commercial
version of the Green Road too, because it is the author that decides to
self-archive his or her article as Open Access by the choice of journal,
selecting a hybrid option, offering an article, and paying author-side fees
as needed. 

 

I could also argue that no journal can make an article open access without
the author's permission, so all roads are the same, since they are all
author-roads. 

 

And for good measure to help your argument,  a Titanium app's storage in the
cloud, an institutional repository, a subject repository, a gold journal,
and a hybrid journal are all repositories of scholarly articles. They differ
only by their scopes and policies.

 

I don't find this sort of word play useful to me nor to OA. It is simply
denigrating what is clearly a different way of achieving open access. One
might as well argue that SMS and Twitter are simply technologically
supercharged email, and Facebook is simply a website. They are all quite
different phenomena, while having some common technological features and
human needs underlying them.

 

Arthur Sale

University of Tasmania, Australia

 

PS, since I did not see Stevan's reply to me except by looking at the
archive, please see the original of this thread if you want to read it. It
is rather long.

 

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