[GOAL] On Not Proliferating Needless Colours and Precious Metals

[Stevan Harnad]

>
> Stevan will tell you [ResearchGate] is just another Green Road (author
> self-archiving) but I have called it the Titanium Road to emphasise that it
> is based on social networking rather than mandates.
>

Gold OA means the publisher makes the (published) article OA (regardless of
whether publisher is subscription-based, subsidized, author-pays or
subsidized)

Green OA means author makes (published or unpublished) article OA
(regardless of whether OA is mandated or unmandated, in Institutional
Repository, Central Repository, Homepage, ResearchGate, Mendeley or Google)

The reason I think there is no need for "Blue OA" or "Yellow OA" (as SHERPA
would have it), nor for "Platinum OA," "Diamond OA" or "Titanium OA," is
that the purpose of neologisms is to mark distinctions that dispel
confusion rather than create it.
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