Dear Stevan,
We started with Gold, because we believe that journals play a
fundamental role in the system of scholarly communication and every
service that tries to facilitate access to literature must start with
journals, not only with a flat collection of papers like the one found
in repositories. For 400 years, journals have been the backbone of the
system, the main structural element. They provide a brand name for
papers, create consistent editoral policy and take responsibility for
the quality and relevance of articles they publish - these features are
of topmost importance for readers, without them navigating through
millions of articles becomes infeasible.
That said, we're fully aware how much great unique content there is in
repositories and we'd like very much to merge these two streams - Gold
and Green - in Paperity at some point. Although there are some tensions
inside OA community between the Gold and Green camps, I think they are
unjustified, because these routes are complementary, not competitive. As
to indexing, it is actually much easier to be done for repositories than
for journals, because most repos expose standardized interfaces. So we
don't need Google Scholar for this purpose, only as I said, we believe
that the right order is journals first.
Best
Marcin
On 10/12/2014 01:51 PM, Stevan Harnad wrote:
Harvesting Gold OA journal articles is a piece of cake. How will
Paperity/redex harvest
Green OA articles published in non-OA journals but made OA somewhere
on the
Web — via Google Scholar?
Sounds like a splendid idea if it can be done… But not if it is just
Gold-biassed,
because most refereed research is not Gold, and the fastest growing
form of
OA is Green (because of mandates, and absence of extra cost).
SH
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