[GOAL] Re: Martin Hall's Defence of the UK Finch Committee Recommendations: Green or Gold? Open Access After Finch

[Stevan Harnad]

On 2012-11-12, at 5:39 PM, Sandy Thatcher <sandy.thatcher at alumni.princeton.edu> wrote:

> If respositories take on the functions of managing peer review and providing value-added
> services like copyediting, then by definition they will become part of the publishing industry,
> just as university presses are. 

Institutional repositories will never do that: They are merely access-providers, to their own 
peer-reviewed institutional output. Institutions cannot and will not become their own local 
peer-reviewers!

Independent journals' editorial boards and referees are the peer-reviewers, whether they 
are managed by learned-society  publishers, university publishers or trade publishers.

That's what a (post-Green OA) journal is: just an established, reliable, independent
peer-review service-provider and certifier, answerable with its title and track-record
for its quality standards.

Stevan Harnad


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