[GOAL] Re: Interview with Harvard's Stuart Shieber

[David Prosser]

As ever, Richard has put together a fascinating and entertaining interview, and augmented it with a really useful essay on the current state of OA policies.

I have a small quibble.  On page two, Richard writes:

"...or by means of gold OA, in which researchers (or more usually their funders) pay publishers an article-processing charge (APC) to ensure that their paper is made freely available on the Web at the time of publication."

APCs make up just one business model that can be used to support Gold OA.  Gold is OA through journals - it makes no assumption about how the costs of publication are paid for.  I think it is helpful to ensure that we do not equate Gold with APCs.

David




On 3 Dec 2012, at 18:51, Richard Poynder wrote:

> Stuart Shieber is the Welch Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, Faculty Co-Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Director of Harvard’s Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC),  and chief architect of the Harvard Open Access (OA) Policy — a 2008 initiative that has seen Harvard become a major force in the OA movement.
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> http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/the-oa-interviews-harvards-stuart.html
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