Andrew, Everybody understands that in real life one sometimes has to make concessions when trying to reach an ideal. But it's quite another thing to elevate such concessions to the status of a goal.
The story should be like this: We are striving for immediate, full, unencumbered open access, with full re-use rights of the material. The 'gold' route delivers that and should be taken now, where and when possible. In those cases where immediate, full, unencumbered open access is — for whatever reason — not yet achievable, we should go as far as possible towards our goal, given what circumstances may permit. For instance, the 'green' route to open access (depositing, with an embargo until they can be made open, articles published in subscription journals), though less than ideal, is a good step in the right direction for those cases. Best, Jan On 14 Jul 2012, at 15:40, Andrew A. Adams wrote: > > There have been a number of rather aggressive exchanges on this list recently > and some of them have contained the accusation that Stevan or one of the > other Green-first proponents are "against Gold" or "against Libre". I would > just like to shortly and clearly re-iterate my own position on this which I > am certain Stevan at least shares (and which I am fairly certain all of the > other Green-first advocates also share): > > CC-BY licensed journals without reader charges are the clear long-term goal > of OA. Those supporting the Green Mandate route simply claim that so far the > only route which can be demonstrated by argument to most quickly achieve a > significant portion of this (restricted licensed access to the author's final > draft directly for ~60% of papers and via an automated request button for the > other 40%) is via funder and institutional "Immediate Deposit/Optional > Access" mandates. > > In replying to arguments putting forth this view, please do not advance the > claim that anyone advancing it is "anti-Gold" or "anti-CC-BY". We are not, we > are just realists that change is usually incremental, and this is the only > incremental step that we can see being possible to persuade academia to take > in sufficient numbers to get us moving towards the final goal, and to gain us > a significant benefit in the short term. > > -- > Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp > Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and > Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics > Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/ > > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
