[GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] New Year's challenge for repository developers and managers: awesome cross-search

[Andrew A. Adams]

Alma Swan wrote:
> The UK's House of Lords (upper chamber of Parliament) Science &
> Technology Committee is conducting an enquiry into Open
> Access. Written submissions are welcome. Individuals and organisations
> are invited to give their views on the actions taken by Government and
> RCUK following publication of the Finch report.
[snip]
> In particular, there are four issues highlighted by the committee:

[snip]
> 2 embargo periods for articles published under the Green model
[snip]

<Sigh>. How often do we have to explain the very basics of the Open Access 
movement to these people making policy? How can we have spent so long failing 
to make the simple definitions clear:

There is no such thing as an "article published under the Green model". The 
Green approach to Open Access involves articles being published in a journal 
following peer review. The publisher provides access to a formatted version 
of this article on print and/or electronically, usually in return for a fee. 
In order to provide access to those who cannot afford to pay the publisher's 
toll, the author, either on their own initiative or because of mandate from 
their funder or employer, deposits the original accepted text (from after 
peer review and corrections sought by the reviewers but often before any 
formatting, copyediting or similar services provided by the publisher) in a 
repository and provides access either openly, or by individual request. THey 
are not "publishing" the article in the academic sense, simply providing 
parallel access to the core text (and graphics). Using the term "articles 
published under the Green model" invites the misunderstanding that Green is 
about articles self-published without peer review.

Green is about supplementary access provision to articles "Published" in the 
traditional manner, not about some radical new form of publication.

Alma, could you provide the source of the issues you highlight? The URL you 
gave is just to the format of how to submit, but does not include the actual 
remit of the inquiry.


-- 
Professor Andrew A Adams                      aaa at meiji.ac.jp
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/