On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Beall, Jeffrey <[email protected]>wrote:
> I make the distinction between gold open-access and platinum open-access. > > Author fees + free to reader = gold open access > No author fees + free to reader = platinum open access > > This discussion, I think, demonstrates that this distinction is > significant and worthy of a separate appellation. > I assume that "free" means "as in speech" (Stallman) and effectively BOAI-compliant, otherwise it overlaps significantly with Green. If so and if we are forced to use semantic-free labels such as G and G, I support this in general. But the terminology and permissions must be clear, else we end up with Wiley's "fully open" which allows almost zero re-use other than eyeballs. OTOH it would be much clearer if we actually used a labelling system which clearly denoted permissions, availability, cost, price, etc. P. -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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