<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Beall, Jeffrey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Jeffrey.Beall@ucdenver.edu" target="_blank">Jeffrey.Beall@ucdenver.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I think platinum open-access involves publishers and their journals or very often single journals, but green open-access is essentially self-archiving, including self-archiving of previously published stuff, usually in an institutional or disciplinary repository.<br>
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Here's an example of what I would call a platinum open-access journal:<br>
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Journal of Library Innovation = <a href="http://www.libraryinnovation.org/" target="_blank">http://www.libraryinnovation.org/</a><br>
<br></blockquote><div>This is NOT BOAI-compliant. From their site:<br><br><h3 style="margin-left:40px">Copyright Notice</h3>
<p style="margin-left:40px"><span style="font-size:8pt;color:#111111;line-height:140%;font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif'">The
Journal of Library Innovation is an open access journal. Authors retain
the copyright to their work under the terms of the following Creative
Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0
(United States) <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/"><span style="color:#337755">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/.</span></a></span></p><p style="margin-left:40px"><span style="font-size:8pt;color:#111111;line-height:140%;font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif'">All authors will be required to sign a License to Publish prior to publication.</span></p>
NC is not BOAI-compliant<br>ND is not-BOAI-compliant<br><br>This licence would not be acceptable to a large number of funders (RCUK, Wellcome, ESF, NIH, etc.)<br><br>For this reason it is important that we stop using arbitrary words and start using precise terms. If this is a "platinum" journal then I am not in favour of this term.<br>
</div><br clear="all"></div><br>-- <br>Peter Murray-Rust<br>Reader in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry<br>University of Cambridge<br>CB2 1EW, UK<br>+44-1223-763069<br>