[GOAL] Re: OA Provision vs. OA Semiology

[Stevan Harnad]

Apologies, the URL lacked a “.”

It should have been Paid Gold OA Versus Free Gold OA: Against Color Cacophony <http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1003-.html> (2013)

(Although Hélène’s was an under-estimate, it was not quite as great an under-estimate
as that!)

SH

> On Aug 19, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Hélène.Bosc <hbosc-tchersky at orange.fr> wrote:
> 
> Looking at the graphs that are in  Paid Gold OA Versus Free Gold OA: Against Color Cacophony <http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1003-html> I see that I was really  under the truth when I said in my previous message of the 15th  August that OA f
> ree, colored and hightly precious terminology has been discussed more than 100 times .
> I should have said : " 1000 times"!
> Hélène Bosc
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: Stevan Harnad <mailto:amsciforum at gmail.com>
>> To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <mailto:goal at eprints.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 1:42 PM
>> Subject: [GOAL] OA Provision vs. OA Semiology
>> 
>> The purpose of terminology and definitions is to clarify and simplify their referents.
>> 
>> The BBB description of OA, based on the first B in 2002 <http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read>, was updated in 2008 <http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/08/greengold-oa-and-gratislibre-oa.html> to distinguish Green
>> from Gold OA and Gratis from Libre OA, exactly along the lines described:
>> 
>> See also:
>> 
>>> On "Diamond OA," "Platinum OA," "Titanium OA," and "Overlay-Journal OA," Again <http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/993-.html>and
>>> Paid Gold OA Versus Free Gold OA: Against Color Cacophony <http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1003-html> (2013)
>> 
>> And, to repeat: 
>> 
>>>> There is no "Platinum" OA. OA is about access, not about funding mechanisms
>>>> (of which there are three: subscription fee, publication fee, or subsidy
>>>> [the latter not to be confused with "gratis"])
>>>> 
>>>> After at least a decade and a half I think it would be a good idea to stop fussing about what
>>>> to call it, and focus instead on providing it...
>> 
>> 
>> Stevan Harnad

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