Is platinum effectively the same as green?
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On 26 Jul 2012, at 14:12, Beall, Jeffrey jeffrey.be...@ucdenver.edu 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
As I mentioned in my brief review which linked to Peter Webster's article, he
isn't saying humanities scholars will reject OA, but there needs to be nuance
within the larger conversation. His articulation was helpful to alert us to the
fact that different disciplines take differing approaches
I think platinum open-access involves publishers and their journals or very
often single journals, but green open-access is essentially self-archiving,
including self-archiving of previously published stuff, usually in an
institutional or disciplinary repository.
Here's an example of what I
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Beall, Jeffrey
jeffrey.be...@ucdenver.eduwrote:
I think platinum open-access involves publishers and their journals or
very often single journals, but green open-access is essentially
self-archiving, including self-archiving of previously published stuff,
On 2012-07-26, at 8:16 AM, Beall, Jeffrey 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
OA comes in two degrees:
Gratis OA is free online
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
OA advocate Stevan Harnad withdraws support for RCUK
policyhttp://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/oa-advocate-stevan-harnad-withdraws_26.html
*RICHARD POYNDER:*
*When on July 16th Research Councils UK
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Like Stevan Harnad, I say: enough with colours!
The important thing to remember is that gold OA is not, repeat *NOT*
limited to author-pay schemes. There are indeed many journals that are
gratis to authors and libre to readers (e.g. SciELO and RedALyC journals
in latin America and beyond). To my
