[GOAL] Re: R Poynder Interviews I Gibson About 2004 UK Select Committee Green OA Mandate Recommendation

[Richard Poynder]

On 28 Oct 2012, at 23:07, Stevan Harnad wrote:





Giving up authors' preferred journals in favour of pure Gold OA journals was
what (I think) BMC's Vitek Tracz and Jan Velterop had been lobbying for at
the time 

 

Stevan may think so, but that doesn't make it correct or accurate. What we
advocated (lobbied for in Stevan's words) at the time, and what I still
advocate now, is open access. Period. We argued that a system of open access
publishing at source is better than a subscription system, and we realised
that repositories would likely play an important role in achieving open
access. That's why BMC offered assistance with establishing repositories,
and the company still does: http://www.openrepository.com

 

I think it would be true to say that BioMed Central launched its repository
service in response to the Select Committee Inquiry? 

 

http://www.biomedcentral.com/presscenter/pressreleases/20040913

 

 

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