No quarrel with all this. I just wanted to point out that an OA journal, technically, is very close to a repository, at least at its basic level. Modular functions can be added, of course, but they can also move across platforms without much trouble. As for the vocabulary: repository, archive, depository, whatever... We might want to make this terminology a bit more rigorous, but it is not a major issue Imho.
Incidentally, from what I have just said, it is not difficult to understand why I believe that OA journals and repositories will converge (mixing and matching). I see the emergence of mega-journals as a potent sign of this. Best, Jean-Claude Guédon Le lundi 21 janvier 2013 à 11:42 +1100, Arthur Sale a écrit : > I think we are now getting into an off-target area: not open access but > archiving. It is really unfortunate that open access repositories were ever > called archives. > > Heather is right. In the past print publishers of books and journals just > had to print them onto papyrus, vellum, or paper, using a non-ephemeral ink, > and rely on dissemination (and libraries) to do the preservation. > Preservation in the digital era is a different matter, having to cope with > ephemeral media and error-resistant information (the opposite of the > Gutenberg era). But this is not central open access stuff, important though > it is. > > Of course, to forestall comment by someone who wants to carp, the lifetime > of research outputs does vary. In some disciplines it is of the order of a > year or two on average, in others perhaps of centuries, to use the extremes. > > Arthur Sale > Tasmania, Australia > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Heather Morrison > Sent: Monday, 21 January 2013 10:11 AM > To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) > Subject: [GOAL] Re: Please distinguish what is and is not relevant to > mandating Green OA self-archiving > > On 20-Jan-13, at 2:25 PM, Jean-Claude Guédon wrote: (excerpt) > > Some forms of Gold do not require any more payment than what is needed to > maintain a repository. In fact, an OA Gold journal is a repository of its > own articles. > > Comment: a gold OA journal serves as a repository, however it is important > to understand that any journal, or the open access status of a journal, may > be ephemeral in nature. Journals are archived and preserved by libraries, > not by journals and publishers. This is important to understand because gold > open access without open access archives is highly vulnerable. Journals can > simply disappear, or be sold by open access publishers to toll access > publishers. For this reason I argue that open access archives are absolutely > essential to sustainable open access. > > best, > > Heather > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > > > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal -- Jean-Claude Guédon Professeur titulaire Littérature comparée Université de Montréal
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