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Dear Stevan,<br>
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We started with Gold, because we believe that journals play a
fundamental role in the system of scholarly communication and every
service that tries to facilitate access to literature must start
with journals, not only with a flat collection of papers like the
one found in repositories. For 400 years, journals have been the
backbone of the system, the main structural element. They provide a
brand name for papers, create consistent editoral policy and take
responsibility for the quality and relevance of articles they
publish - these features are of topmost importance for readers,
without them navigating through millions of articles becomes
infeasible.<br>
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That said, we're fully aware how much great unique content there is
in repositories and we'd like very much to merge these two streams -
Gold and Green - in Paperity at some point. Although there are some
tensions inside OA community between the Gold and Green camps, I
think they are unjustified, because these routes are complementary,
not competitive. As to indexing, it is actually much easier to be
done for repositories than for journals, because most repos expose
standardized interfaces. So we don't need Google Scholar for this
purpose, only as I said, we believe that the right order is journals
first.<br>
<br>
Best<br>
Marcin<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/12/2014 01:51 PM, Stevan Harnad
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Harvesting Gold OA journal articles is a piece of cake. How will
Paperity/redex harvest
<div>Green OA articles published in non-OA journals but made OA
somewhere on the</div>
<div>Web — via Google Scholar?</div>
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<div>Sounds like a splendid idea if it can be done… But not if it
is just Gold-biassed,</div>
<div>because most refereed research is not Gold, and the fastest
growing form of</div>
<div>OA is Green (because of mandates, and absence of extra cost).</div>
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<div>SH</div>
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