[GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] Unanimity (Re: Monographs)

[Andrew A. Adams]

Rick Anderson wrote:
> Researchers tend to see OA models as presenting a mixed bag of upsides
> and downsides (as any publishing model does).

Open Access is NOT a publishing model. It is a descriptive binary property of 
an article: is it available electronically, without fee, from an easily 
locatable source (gratis OA; and with a suitable license for libre OA)?

Green OA is not 8directly) about publishing models (though if we reach close 
to 100% Green gratis OA there may be consequences for some business models of 
publishing).

There are many routes to OA, some involving new publishing models, but OA is 
a description not a model.


-- 
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/