<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>As someone living and working in a not-so-affluent country, I know the value of gratis access to the journal literature of science and scholarship. Let us not keep quibbling over definitions. What should guide us now is the speed with which we can bring as much of the literature as possible into the domain of gratis access. And by that yardstick Green OA seems to be the best option. Believe me as we approach 100% Green OA, the rest of all you want will follow.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Arun </span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span
style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Richard Poynder <ricky@richardpoynder.co.uk><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> goal@eprints.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 9 May 2012, 23:59<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [GOAL] Re: Meaning of Open Access<br> </font> </div> <br>So what is really at issue is whether Green Gratis OA is indeed not<br>"meaningful" enough to warrant "lowering the bar" in order to mandate it.<br><br>According to Jan, it is not.<br><br>According to me, it most definitely is: in fact, it is the first and<br>foremost reason for providing OA at all.<br><br>What do other GOAL and JISC readers think?<br><br>>><br><br>There are times when the best that can be achieved is that people agree to<br>disagree. I think this is one of those times.<br><br>Richard Poynder<br>
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