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Hélène is right to bring attention to this reaction of French mathematicians, but alas, once again, the Gold road is conflated with the author-pay model.<BR>
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There are two big mistakes that constantly float around open access:<BR>
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<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=1><I>OA is gold OA</I>. <B>This is patently false </B>since the Green Road is as indispensable as the Gold road, and in some phases of the movement, it is even more useful. Stevan harnad has rightfully denounced this mistake on a number of occasions.
<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=2><I>The author-pay model is Gold OA</I>. <B>Again patently false.</B> As Peter Suber has pointed out in his recent book, <B>the majority of OA journals are without costs to authors submitting and to readers</B>.
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Jean-Claude Guédon<BR>
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Le vendredi 31 août 2012 à 21:59 +0200, Hélène Bosc a écrit :<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="http://smai.emath.fr/IMG/pdf/Open_access_trois_societes-2.pdf">I</A></FONT>
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