I totally agree with Stevan.
Just one point of clarification. While I think the Titanium Road is a very useful addition to the OA arsenal, I continue to promote ID/OA institutional repositories, and even the growth of open access journals as appropriate. My approach is eclectic. Dear Father Christmas, what I would like for 2012 is 100% OA to be adopted as policy by all researchers. Best wishes to the list for the holiday season. Arthur Sale From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: Saturday, 24 December 2011 1:04 AM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: The Titanium Road response For the perplexed reader who wonders what on earth two OA advocates -- long on the same team, and still on the same team -- are disagreeing about: it's just about where the time and effort of OA advocates is best invested. I am for redoubling efforts to persuade institutions and funders to adopt Green OA Mandates (now with the help of EOS), and Arthur is for encouraging researchers to adopt the Titanium Technology (e.g. Mendeley) which could provide OA as a side-effect (if adopted). That's all. Both of us would like to see OA prevail before we become nitrogen nourishing future generations. I wish Arthur the best of luck in promoting Titanium. I'm sure he does not wish me any less in promoting Green OA mandates. Peace. Stevan Harnad -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/attachments/20111224/0dfb915f/attachment.html
