Are there examples of such "subscription journals that make their online version freely accessible online (immediately upon publication)."
Who would subscribe, and what would a subscription entail? Jan Velterop On 19 Apr 2013, at 05:16, Stevan Harnad <amscifo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Jean-Claude Guédon > <jean.claude.gue...@umontreal.ca> wrote: > > The reference to free Gold journals covered by subscriptions is not clear to > me. Is this a reference to SCOAP3? > > It's a reference to all subscription journals that make their online version > freely accessible online (immediately upon publication). > > (No, SCOAP3 is a premature and unnecessary post-hoc consortial "membership" > scheme that I think will not prove sustainable. The HEP fields have already > provided near 100% (Green) OA for 20 years, un-mandated. What's needed next > is for institutions and funders to mandate that all other disciplines do > likewise.) > > Stevan Harnad > > Le jeudi 18 avril 2013 à 07:45 +0100, Stevan Harnad a écrit : >> >> 1. The Green/Gold Open Access (OA) distinction concerns whether it is the >> author or the publisher that provides the OA. >> 2. This distinction was important to mark with clear terms because the >> conflation of the two roads to OA has practical implications and has been >> holding up OA progress for a decade and a half. >> 3. The distinction between paid Gold and free Gold is very far from being a >> straightforward one. >> 4. Free Gold can be free (to the author) because the expenses of the Gold >> journal are covered by subscriptions, subsidies or volunteerism. >> 5. The funds for Paid Gold can come from the author's pocket, the author's >> research grant, the author's institution or the author's funder. >> 6. It would be both absurd and gratuitously confusing to mark each of these >> economic-model differences with a color-code. >> 7. Superfluous extra colors would also obscure the role that the colour-code >> was invented to perform: distinguishing author-side OA provision from >> publisher-side OA provision. >> 8. So, please, let's not have "diamond," "platinum" and "titanium" OA, >> despite the metallurgical temptations. >> 9. They amplify noise instead of pinpointing the signal, just as >> SHERPA/Romeo's parti-colored Blue/Yellow/Green spectrum (mercifully ignored >> by almost everyone) does. >> 10. OA is about providing Open Access to peer-reviewed journal articles, not >> about cost-recovery models for OA publishing (Gold OA). >> 11. The Gold that publishers are fighting for and that researcher funders >> are subsidizing (whether "pure" or "hybrid") is paid Gold, not free Gold. >> 12. No one knows whether or how free Gold will be sustainable, any more than >> they know whether or how long subscription publishing can co-exist viably >> with mandatory Green OA. >> 13. So please leave the economic ideology and speculation out of the >> pragmatics of OA policy making by the research community (institutions and >> funders). >> 14. Cost-recovery models are the province of publishers (Gold OA). >> 15. What the research community needs to do is mandate OA provision. >> 16. The only OA provision that is entirely in the research community's hands >> is Green OA. >> And, before you ask, please let's not play into the publishers' hands by >> colour-coding OA also in terms of the length of the publisher embargo: >> 3-month OA, 6-month OA, 12-month-OA, 24-month-OA, millennial OA: OA means >> immediate online access. Anything else is delayed access. (The only >> quasi-exception is the "Almost-OA" provided by the author via the >> institutional repository's email-eprint-request Button when complying with >> publisher embargoes -- but that too is clearly not OA, which is immediate, >> free online access.) >> And on no account should the genuine, substantive distinction between Gratis >> OA (free online access) and Libre OA (free online access plus various re-use >> rights) be color-coded (with a different shade for every variety of CC >> license)! >> Harnad, S., Brody, T., Vallieres, F., Carr, L., Hitchcock, S., Gingras, Y, >> Oppenheim, C., Stamerjohanns, H., & Hilf, E. (2004) The Access/Impact >> Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access. Serials Review 30. >> Shorter version: The green and the gold roads to Open Access. Nature Web >> Focus. > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
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