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Good point about the instability of journals, Heather, but the same instability applies to repositories. The CIHR policy change in Canada, that you recently pointed out, extending the embargo to 12 months, is a case in point. The rules under which one may archiver are at the discretion of publishers, alas.<BR>
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Journals were archived by libraries in the print world. In digital formats, this has become a contentious terrain.<BR>
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I agree that Gold is strengthened by Green's repositories; Green has its own vulnerabilities, such as moving from gratis to libre. Together, Gold and Green can help each other.<BR>
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Jean-Claude Guédon<BR>
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Le dimanche 20 janvier 2013 à 15:10 -0800, Heather Morrison a écrit :
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On 20-Jan-13, at 2:25 PM, Jean-Claude Guédon wrote: (excerpt)
Some forms of Gold do not require any more payment than what is needed
to maintain a repository. In fact, an OA Gold journal is a repository
of its own articles.
Comment: a gold OA journal serves as a repository, however it is
important to understand that any journal, or the open access status of
a journal, may be ephemeral in nature. Journals are archived and
preserved by libraries, not by journals and publishers. This is
important to understand because gold open access without open access
archives is highly vulnerable. Journals can simply disappear, or be
sold by open access publishers to toll access publishers. For this
reason I argue that open access archives are absolutely essential to
sustainable open access.
best,
Heather
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Université de Montréal
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