Can I in return ask Jean-Claude Guédon if he read the interview before posting his comment below?
Sent from Type Mail On 31 Mar 2015 14:22, at 14:22, "Guédon Jean-Claude" <jean.claude.gue...@umontreal.ca> wrote: >Could I, once more, ask Richard Poynder (and many others) not to >confuse Gold OA and APC-Gold. > >APC-Gold is uncovering problems that had not been anticipated at first. >Poynder mentions one in his note, and assigns it to the whole Gold OA. >Predatory journals exist only because the APC-Gold business model opens >the door to this odious kind od polluting and parasitic behaviour. >However, and I repeat, APC-Gold is but one subset of Gold OA. > >Is it so difficult to understand? > >Just to make things very, very clear: Gold OA is agnostic with regard >to business plans, and it does not limit itself to one business plan. >This is a form of thinking-in-a-box that requires the breaking of the >box. > >Jean-Claude Guédon >________________________________ >De : goal-boun...@eprints.org [goal-boun...@eprints.org] de la part de >Richard Poynder [richard.poyn...@cantab.net] >Envoyé : mardi 31 mars 2015 08:20 >À : 'Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)' >Objet : [GOAL] The Life and Death of an Open Access Journal: Q&A with >Librarian Marcus Banks > >Despite their high profile advocacy for open access, many librarians >have proved strangely reluctant to practice what they preach. As late >as last year calls were still being made for the profession to start >“walking the talk”. > >On the other hand, many librarians have embraced OA, particularly >medical librarians. In 2001, for instance, the Journal of the Medical >Library Association (JMLA) began to make its content freely available >on the Internet. And in 2003 Charles Greenberg, then at the Yale >University Medical Library, launched an open access journal with BioMed >Central called Biomedical Digital Libraries (BDL). One of the first to >join the editorial board (and later to take over as Editor-in-Chief) >was Marcus Banks, who was then working at the US National Library of >Medicine. > >Four years later, however, BDL became a victim of BMC’s decision to >increase the cost of the article-processing charges (APCs) it levies. >This meant that few librarians were able to afford to publish in the >journal any longer, and submissions began to dry up. Despite several >attempts to move BDL to a different publishing platform, in 2008 Banks >had to make the hard decision to cease publishing the journal. > >What do we learn from BDL’s short life? In advocating for >pay-to-publish gold OA did open access advocates underestimate how much >it costs to publish a journal? Or have publishers simply been able to >capture open access and use it to further ramp up what many believe to >be their excessive profits? Why has JMLA continued to prosper under >open access while BDL has withered and died? Was BDL unable to compete >with JMLA on a level playing field? Could the demise of BDL have been >avoided? What, if anything, does the journal’s fate tell us about the >future of open access? > >These and other questions are discussed with Banks in a Q&A interview >here: > >http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/the-life-and-death-of-open-access.html > > >_______________________________________________ >GOAL mailing list >GOAL@eprints.org >http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
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