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

[Jean-Claude Guédon]

Good point about the instability of journals, Heather, but the same
instability applies to repositories. The CIHR policy change in Canada,
that you recently pointed out, extending the embargo to 12 months, is a
case in point. The rules under which one may archiver are at the
discretion of publishers, alas.

Journals were archived by libraries in the print world. In digital
formats, this has become a contentious terrain.

I agree that Gold is strengthened by Green's repositories; Green has its
own vulnerabilities, such as moving from gratis to libre. Together, Gold
and Green can help each other.

Jean-Claude Guédon



Le dimanche 20 janvier 2013 à 15:10 -0800, Heather Morrison a écrit :

> 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 
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Jean-Claude Guédon
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Littérature comparée
Université de Montréal

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