[GOAL] Three Gold OA Cost-Recovery Models

[Stevan Harnad]

On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 9:27 PM, LIBLICENSE <liblicense at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: "Jean-Claude Guédon" <jean.claude.guedon at umontreal.ca>
> Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 12:24:51 -0400
>
> Entirely agreed with Stevan Harnad, except for one point:
>
> Paying extra to obtain OA is not Gold OA; it is APC-Gold OA. Gold OA
> includes many journals that are gratis to authors and libre to
> readers.


Of course Jean-Claude Guédon is right. Even if I don't mention it
explicitly every time, the meaning of OA is free online access (to
peer-reviewed research), the meaning of Green OA is free online access
provided by the author, and the meaning of Gold OA is free online access
provided by the journal, *whether the journal is subscription-based,
APC-based, or subsidized.*

(I ought to know, since I have just accepted to be editor-in-chief of a new
Gold OA journal -- *Animal Sentience
<http://animalstudiesrepository.org/animsent/> --* that is neither
APC-based nor subscription-based: It is subsidized by the Humane Society
Institute for Science and Policy (HSISP)
<http://www.humanesociety.org/about/departments/hsisp/>.)

Stevan Harnad
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