[GOAL] Re: Meaning of Open Access

[Hélène.Bosc]

As someone living in Europe which is probably going to be not-so-affluent, in reason of the crisis, I agree with Arun. 

It is highly probable that in a near future, when money is not generously provided by governments for research libraries, that a lot of researchers in Europe and worldwide will be happy to get an OA article, even if it is only a draft, and even after an embargo period. 

Green OA can be easily and rapidly provided for and by researchers living in rich, poor and future-poor countries, and it helps the progress of science. 

Spending time to contest a 10 years definition seems me a quarrel of spoilt children in a schoolyard.



Hélène Bosc
Open Access to Scientific Communication
http://open-access.infodocs.eu/tiki-index.php


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Subbiah Arunachalam 
  To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) 
  Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 1:26 PM
  Subject: [GOAL] Re: Meaning of Open Access


  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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