Stevan Harnad wrote, with respect to the Chemical Engineering News
editorial:
This conflation of journal pricing and policy with access provision is
also one of the reasons we are still so one-sidedly fixated now on OA
*publishing* (gold) instead of on OA *provision* (both gold and green).
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, George S. Porter wrote:
I, for one, am a mite frustrated by the strait jacketed insistence
that there are only two approaches to opening access to the research
literature.
There are many approaches to opening access to the research
literature. One is to publish it at all
[Moderator's note: Below are three postings, by:
(1) S. Hitchcock, (2) D. Goodman, (3) B. Quint]
(1) Steve Hitchcock:
I endorse the need to remove delays and for papers to be made open access
upon publication, or even earlier, either by self-archiving or by
publishing in gold journals. But
[Moderator's Note: Below are two postings: (1) B. Hubbard
(2) S. Arunachalam. My own comments on the redesigning of
SHERPA/Romeo will follow in the next posting.]
Prior Amsci Topic Thread:
SHERPA will take over the Romeo Publisher Policy TableALPSPready Green
There have been some valuable improvements to the Romeo directory of journal
policies on author self-archiving in the new SHERPA/Romeo version
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
but unfortunately some valuable features of the original Romeo version
This is cross-posted from Peter Suber's Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_03_28_fosblogarchive.html#a108088191170583007
More on the UK inquiry
Richard Poynder, The Inevitable and the Optimal,
Information Today, April 1, 2004.
