[GOAL] Re: Reaching for the Reachable

[Andrew A. Adams]

There have been a number of rather aggressive exchanges on this list recently 
 and some of them have contained the accusation that Stevan or one of the 
other Green-first proponents are "against Gold" or "against Libre". I would 
just like to shortly and clearly re-iterate my own position on this which I 
am certain Stevan at least shares (and which I am fairly certain all of the 
other Green-first advocates also share):

CC-BY licensed journals without reader charges are the clear long-term goal 
of OA. Those supporting the Green Mandate route simply claim that so far the 
only route which can be demonstrated by argument to most quickly achieve a 
significant portion of this (restricted licensed access to the author's final 
draft directly for ~60% of papers and via an automated request button for the 
other 40%) is via funder and institutional "Immediate Deposit/Optional 
Access" mandates.

In replying to arguments putting forth this view, please do not advance the 
claim that anyone advancing it is "anti-Gold" or "anti-CC-BY". We are not, we 
are just realists that change is usually incremental, and this is the only 
incremental step that we can see being possible to persuade academia to take 
in sufficient numbers to get us moving towards the final goal, and to gain us 
a significant benefit in the short term.

-- 
Professor Andrew A Adams                      aaa at meiji.ac.jp
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/