On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 geo...@library.caltech.edu wrote: > *Gold* and *Green*, to borrow Stevan Harnad's terms, representing full > Open Access journals and author self-archiving friendly journals, are > but a small fraction of the spectrum which I am currently seeing.
Well, it depends on what you are counting! Only 5% of journals are as yet Gold (i.e., Open Access Journals) it is true, but 60% are Green (i.e., endorse author self-archiving) according to the lastest estimate from ALPSP, topping the prior estimate of 55% by Romeo: "ALPSP Survey: Over 60% of Journal Publishers Are Already Green" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3670.html http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/Romeo%20Publisher%20Policies.htm > The dominant economic model of scholarly publishing is being challenged by > more than just one or two alternative paradigms. As others have noted, the > insistence that one size fits all or that a single magic bullet exists is > counterproductive. Gold Journals are challenging the dominant model of journal publishing, but Green Journals are not. They are merely being responsive to their authors' expressed desire to maximize their article's research impact by self-archiving an open access version of it for any would-be users whose institutions cannot afford the journal's toll-access version. Open Access does not equal Open Access Publishing. Nor does it equal Economic Model Change (though it might -- or might not -- eventually lead to it). "The Green Road to Open Access: A Leveraged Transition" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3378.html Stevan Harnad NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004) is available at the American Scientist Open Access Forum: To join the Forum: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html Post discussion to: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@amsci.org Hypermail Archive: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html Unified Dual Open-Access-Provision Policy: BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php