[GOAL] Re: Please distinguish what is and is not relevant to mandating Green OA self-archiving

[Heather Morrison]

On 20-Jan-13, at 2:25 PM, Jean-Claude Guédon wrote: (excerpt)

Some forms of Gold do not require any more payment than what is needed  
to maintain a repository. In fact, an OA Gold journal is a repository  
of its own articles.

Comment: a gold OA journal serves as a repository, however it is  
important to understand that any journal, or the open access status of  
a journal, may be ephemeral in nature. Journals are archived and  
preserved by libraries, not by journals and publishers. This is  
important to understand because gold open access without open access  
archives is highly vulnerable. Journals can simply disappear, or be  
sold by open access publishers to toll access publishers. For this  
reason I argue that open access archives are absolutely essential to  
sustainable open access.

best,

Heather