Rick Anderson wrote:
Researchers tend to see OA models as presenting a mixed bag of upsides
and downsides (as any publishing model does).
Open Access is NOT a publishing model. It is a descriptive binary property of
an article: is it available electronically, without fee, from an easily
Business, Innovation and Skills Committee
Select Committee Announcement No.35
Tuesday 26 November 2013
COMMITTEE PUBLISHES GOVERNMENT RESPONSE AND RCUK RESPONSE TO
ITS REPORT ON OPEN ACCESS
Today, the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee is publishing the
Government Response
Open Access is NOT a publishing model
Exactly right. OA is a characteristic of an item of scholarly literature. Not
even of a journal or publisher (though all items/articles they publish may of
course be OA, in which case the terms 'OA journal' and 'OA publisher' are
shorthand for that).
This
Jan,
There are reasons for requiring green deposit even where an article is
already OA on the journal. First, that canchange - one of my articles was
published in a new Journal (Vol 2(2)) which a couple of years later was sold
by bepress to iley and became closed - very annoyingly to me on
Sorry
I part company with you Anthony. There is little reason to redeposit an OA
item just in case the firm goes bust or is sold. It is simply wasted effort
and almost every researcher will see it as such. The URL/DOI/handle is far
superior as it guarantees correctness and no hacking or
