<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>JV: "the definition of OA... is being changed... instead of any OA achievements</div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>being measured against the goal that has been set"</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The 2002 BOAI definition was refined in 2008 to name its two constituents:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/newsletter/08-02-08.htm#gratis-libre">http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/newsletter/08-02-08.htm#gratis-libre</a></div><div><br></div><div>For a measure of relative growth of Green OA and Gold OA, Gratis and Libre,</div><div>see the following. </div><div><br></div><div>Almost all the Green OA to date and most of the Gold OA is Gratis OA rather </div><div>than Libre OA:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/905-Finch-Fiasco-in-Figures.html">http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/905-Finch-Fiasco-in-Figures.html</a></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>JV: "whilst what has been, and can be, achieved with self-archiving is a</div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>most important step towards the ultimate goal of Open Access, the</div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>goal is not quite achievable that way"</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Gratis OA can be achieved directly via Gratis Green OA mandates. </div><div><br></div><div>Libre OA and Gold OA cannot be achieved directly via Gratis Green </div><div>OA mandates, but are very likely to follow after we have universal </div><div>Gratis Green OA mandates.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>JV: "the Open Access of 'gold' is according to the BOAI definition,</div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>and most of the open access of 'green' isn't"</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Almost all the Green OA to date and most of the Gold OA is Gratis </div><div>OA rather than Libre OA.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">JV: </font>Anybody can now call just about any publishing or repository</div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>offering Open Access</div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>No, one can call it Gratis OA if it is free online access and Libre OA </div><div>if it is free online access plus various re-use rights.</div><div><br></div><div>Stevan Harnad</div></body></html>