On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Kjellberg Sara wrote: > Yes, agreed. We were not even thinking about the print version in that > way. All OA journals we know of who run a parallel print version charge > for that. How about this addition to our criteria? > > 2.1 Cost: Journals that use a funding model that charges users or > their institutions for the online version are not included. If there > is an additional print version it may or may not be charged for.
Still not quite right, I think! There is nothing wrong with a publisher charging for access to its online edition either -- as long as it is also OA! (Not much point in their doing that, but no sense in forbidding it if it doesn't matter! Nothing at all is gained by our being even one millimetre more restrictive at this stage than necessary -- especially at a time when we are trying to get more publishers on board!) I suggest: 2.1 Cost: Journals that use a funding model that charges any users or their institutions for the online version are not included unless the online version is also accessible to all users toll-free (full-text, immediately, permanently, downloadable from the web by anyone, any time). Charging for a parallel print edition is acceptable. Stevan Harnad NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004) is available at the American Scientist Open Access Forum: To join the Forum: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html Post discussion to: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@amsci.org Hypermail Archive: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html Unified Dual Open-Access-Provision Policy: BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php