[GOAL] Re: Meaning of Open Access

[Subbiah Arunachalam]

As someone living and working in a not-so-affluent country, I know the value of gratis access to the journal literature of science and scholarship. Let us not keep quibbling over definitions. What should guide us now is the speed with which we can bring as much of the literature as possible into the domain of gratis access. And by that yardstick Green OA seems to be the best option. Believe me as we approach 100% Green OA, the rest of all you want will follow.

Arun  


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 From: Richard Poynder <ricky at richardpoynder.co.uk>
To: goal at eprints.org 
Sent: Wednesday, 9 May 2012, 23:59
Subject: [GOAL] Re: Meaning of Open Access
 
So what is really at issue is whether Green Gratis OA is indeed not
"meaningful" enough to warrant "lowering  the  bar" in order to mandate it.

According to Jan, it is not.

According to me, it most definitely is: in fact, it is the first and
foremost reason for providing OA at all.

What do other GOAL and JISC readers think?

>>

There are times when the best that can be achieved is that people agree to
disagree. I think this is one of those times.

Richard Poynder


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