<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Rick Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rick.anderson@utah.edu" target="_blank">rick.anderson@utah.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote">
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<div class="gmail_extra"> Is it possible that what you really intend to do is suggest that just because a publisher allows all articles to be archived
Green doesn't mean that the articles are actually available that way, and that it might be dangerous for a library to cancel in a knee-jerk way when a publisher makes that allowance?</div></div></div></div></blockquote>
</span></div></blockquote><div style>Yes.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>If you see a problem with the explanation I laid out, please say what the problem is </div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div style>I did (and you've just repeated part of what I said above..</div><div style><br>
</div><div style>Here it is again:</div><div style><br></div><div style>1. 60% of journals are Green </div><div style><br></div><div style>2. No evidence that more articles from Green journals are made Green OA than articles from non-Green journals</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>3. Cancelling (needed) journals because they are Green rather than because they are accessible or unaffordable is arbitrary and counterproductive (for user needs).</div><div style><br></div>
<div style>4. Cancelling journals because they are Green rather than because they are either unneeded or unaffordable is arbitrary and counterproductive for OA.</div><div style><br></div><div style>5. Publicly announcing (as you did) that journals are to be cancelled because they are Green rather than because they are either unneeded or unaffordable is certain to induce Green publishers to stop being Green and instead adopt and Green OA embargoes.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>6. Library cancellation of Green journals will slow the growth of OA, thereby compounding the disservice that such an unthinking (sic) policy does both to users and to OA.</div><div style><br>
</div><div style><b>Stevan Harnad</b></div></div></div></div>