[GOAL] Re: Paid Gold vs. Free Gold

2013-04-19 Thread Jean-Claude Guédon
As Jan Velterop says, it makes little economic sense to develop such a "business plan"; yet it exists. We should probably ask why. One obvious but unlikely answer would be stupidity. A more likely answer is that it is to the advantages of the publishers, collectively, constantly to bring new , so-c

[GOAL] Re: Paid Gold vs. Free Gold

2013-04-19 Thread Andrew A. Adams
Jan is right. It appears my institution has a subscription that I didn't know about - when trying to access the papers from home, I now get directed to a paywall. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and D

[GOAL] Re: Paid Gold vs. Free Gold

2013-04-19 Thread Laurent Romary
This corresponds for instance to the Freemium scheme of OpenEdition. Under this scheme, papers are freely available in HTML and additional services are offered to libraries that have taken a subscription (ePub, pdf, cataloguing facilities, etc.) Laurent Le 19 avr. 2013 à 07:52, Jan Velterop a é

[GOAL] Re: Paid Gold vs. Free Gold

2013-04-19 Thread Jan Velterop
From the Wiley Online Library site: Policy & Internet — http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/poi3.20/full Options for accessing this content: If you have access to this content through a society membership, please first log in to your society website. If you would like institutional access

[GOAL] Re: Paid Gold vs. Free Gold

2013-04-19 Thread Andrew A. Adams
> Are there examples of such "subscription journals that make their > online version freely accessible online (immediately upon publication)." Policy and Internet, which used to be published by BEPress (and annoyingly, links to their site are now dead, without them telling authors) but since mov

[GOAL] Re: Paid Gold vs. Free Gold

2013-04-19 Thread Alma Swan
Yes, here are some: http://www.openoasis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=553&It emid=378 Wolters Kluwer bought Medknow a couple of years ago but has (so far) retained its subscription-plus-immediate-free-access model: http://www.medknow.com/journals.asp Alma Swan On 19/04/2013

[GOAL] Re: Paid Gold vs. Free Gold

2013-04-18 Thread Jan Velterop
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 wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:33 PM,

[GOAL] Re: Paid Gold vs. Free Gold

2013-04-18 Thread Stevan Harnad
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 acc

[GOAL] Re: Paid Gold vs. Free Gold

2013-04-18 Thread Jean-Claude Guédon
Thank you to Stevan for outlining his views as clearly as he does. I also acknowledge his desire to frame a message in terms as clear and simple as possible in order to seek optimal effectiveness in penetrating people's minds. However, this quest for conceptual simplicity through linguistic and ana