Here is Jeffrey Beall's answer to Ashry Aly's disagreement:
http://scholarlyoa.com/2013/01/20/ashdin_publishing/
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1. Mandatory Green OA self-archiving in Stevan's meaning is fine
for the disciplines to which it applies;
It applies to (the refereed journal articles of) *all* disciplines: No
exceptions.
2. Other tactics are also fine, in particular some flavours of Gold
(OA journal publishing), and again
Le dimanche 20 janvier 2013 à 16:52 -0500, Stevan Harnad a écrit :
1. Mandatory Green OA self-archiving in Stevan's meaning is fine
for the disciplines to which it applies;
It applies to (the refereed journal articles of) *all* disciplines: No
exceptions.
Indeed, but in a number of
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
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
Good point about the instability of journals, Heather, but the same
instability applies to repositories. The CIHR policy change in Canada,
that you recently pointed out, extending the embargo to 12 months, is a
case in point. The rules under which one may archiver are at the
discretion of
Tribute to Aaron Swartz: Watch his How we stopped SOPA keynote at F2C2012
http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/tribute-to-aaron-swartz-watch-his-how-we-stopped-sopa-keynote-at-f2c2012/
Open access to scholarly literature and research online depends upon an open
Internet. It is easy to
