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

[Richard Poynder]

Thanks for the comments David. Your point about not equating Gold OA with
APCs is well taken.

 

But it also invites a question I think: do we know what percentage of
papers(not journals, but papers) published Gold OA today incur no APC
charge, and what do we anticipate this percentage becoming in a post-Finch
world?

 

Richard

 

From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf
Of David Prosser
Sent: 11 December 2012 19:53
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
Subject: [GOAL] Re: Interview with Harvard's Stuart Shieber

 

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,  <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/sshieber> Faculty
Co-Director of the  <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/sshieber> Berkman
Center for Internet and Society, Director of Harvard's Office for Scholarly
Communication ( <http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/> OSC),  and chief architect of
the Harvard Open Access ( <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access> OA)
Policy - a 2008 initiative that has seen Harvard become a major force in the
OA movement.

 

http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/the-oa-interviews-harvards-stuart.html

 

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