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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>My apologies to you, Stevan, for appearing to ignore you, and the list, since Monday. The trouble was that when my old email address was edited to the one I use mostly now, the new address was mangled, and as a result I got no posts from GOAL. It was only when I tried to post a second time that the problem came to light. Richard has fixed the error, I think (thanks Richard). So this message is to address part of your very long email, and to serve as a test that GOAL has me right at last. Then I can get to answering the rest of your post.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>IS THE TITANIUM ROAD A TECHNOLOGICALLY SUPERCHARGED GREEN ROAD?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Well, if you want to play on words, you can think of it that way. I won’t. But you had better start thinking of the Gold Road as an ultimate commercial version of the Green Road too, because it is the author that decides to self-archive his or her article as Open Access by the choice of journal, selecting a hybrid option, offering an article, and paying author-side fees as needed. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I could also argue that no journal can make an article open access without the author’s permission, so all roads are the same, since they are all author-roads. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And for good measure to help your argument, a Titanium app’s storage in the cloud, an institutional repository, a subject repository, a gold journal, and a hybrid journal are all repositories of scholarly articles. They differ only by their scopes and policies.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I don’t find this sort of word play useful to me nor to OA. It is simply denigrating what is clearly a different way of achieving open access. One might as well argue that SMS and Twitter are simply technologically supercharged email, and Facebook is simply a website. They are all quite different phenomena, while having some common technological features and human needs underlying them.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Arthur Sale<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>University of Tasmania, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PS, since I did not see Stevan’s reply to me except by looking at the archive, please see the original of this thread if you want to read it. It is rather long.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>