The overlay-journal idea has two versions. One is simply a convenient way to submit articles to existing journals -- both OA journals and non-OA journals: by depositing the preprint in an OAI-compliant archive (BOAI-1). The other is merely one variant of BOAI-2, alternative OA journals. It is best to keep the two clearly separate in one's mind, at least untoil more people get a clear idea of what institutional OA archiving and OA are all about. This has been much discussed in the American Scientist Open Acces Forum across the years. I suggest reviewing the archive rather than recapitulating the discussion.
Stevan Harnad On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Ann Okerson wrote: > In response to Brian's message: If one searches the liblicense-l archives > (from the web site, at: <www.library.yale.edu/~llicense> for the word > "overlay," one gets a return of a posting entitled International "Learned > Journals Seminar" Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 19:50:03. [SNIP]
