Looking at the graphs that are in Paid Gold OA Versus Free Gold OA: Against
Color Cacophony I see that I was really under the truth when I said in my
previous message of the 15th August that OA free, colored and hightly precious
terminology has been discussed more than 100 times .
I should have said : 1000 times!
Hélène Bosc
- Original Message -
From: Stevan Harnad
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 1:42 PM
Subject: [GOAL] OA Provision vs. OA Semiology
The purpose of terminology and definitions is to clarify and simplify their
referents.
The BBB description of OA, based on the first B in 2002, was updated in 2008
to distinguish Green from Gold OA and Gratis from Libre OA, exactly along the
lines described:
See also:
On Diamond OA, Platinum OA, Titanium OA, and Overlay-Journal OA,
Again
and
Paid Gold OA Versus Free Gold OA: Against Color Cacophony (2013)
And, to repeat:
There is no Platinum OA. OA is about access, not about funding
mechanisms
(of which there are three: subscription fee, publication fee, or subsidy
[the latter not to be confused with gratis])
After at least a decade and a half I think it would be a good idea to
stop fussing about what to call it, and focus instead on providing it...
Stevan Harnad
On Aug 19, 2015, at 3:00 AM, MIGUEL ERNESTO NAVAS FERNANDEZ
miguel.na...@ub.edu wrote:
Dear all,
I would like to answer to the definitions given by Stevan Harnad:
1. Green OA means OA provided by the author (usually by self-archiving the
refereed, revised, accepted final draft in an OA repository)
2. Gold OA means OA provided by the journal (often for a publication fee)
3. Gratis OA means free online access.
4. Libre OA means Gratis OA plus various re-use rights
I agree with the idea that we should use the same official definitions, but
when those a) are not clear, b) look contradictious and c) fail to represent
reality, then we should clarify them a little.
And I think that they are not clear (what does a color name mean?), look
contradictious (OA cannot be only gratis according to BBB definitions) and c)
they fail to represent reality if they do not consider OA-ACP (Platinum OA) and
OA+APC (Commercial OA) as different things.
I will explain myself.
First, I don't agree with statements 3 and 4. According to the last
official OA definition given by at Bethesda
(http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm#definition), An Open
Access Publication[1] is one that meets the following two conditions:
1) The author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free,
irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy,
use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and
distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose,
subject to proper attribution of authorship[2], as well as the right to make
small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.
2) A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including
a copy of the permission as stated above, in a suitable standard electronic
format is deposited immediately upon initial publication in at least one online
repository that is supported by an academic institution, scholarly society,
government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable
open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term
archiving (for the biomedical sciences, PubMed Central is such a repository).
Reading only 1), Open Access = free access + re-use rights. Free access
only is not OA. Therefore, gratis OA would not exist, for it is not OA yet.
In other words, Gratis OA should be called free or gratis access, and Libre
OA should be called just OA. The use of gratis and libre is given by the
open software culture, not by OA official definitions.
That said, if a majority of researchers is using gratis OA or libre OA
(as the mentioned Peter Suber does, for instance), I am not going to fight them
back. I will accept what is used by the majority. But then I don't understand
that belligerence when other terms as Platinum appear.
Second, it is true that Platinum is not official, but no one can deny
that Gold OA journals published by universities and public research bodies at
no cost for the author are a different thing from Gold OA journals published by
commercial enterprises, including hybrid journals. That doesn't seem logical
for me. It would be as calling full, hybrid and embargo journals the same OA
with no difference among them (if hybrid and embargo journals are really OA,
something that I doubt). You can call it OA with APC vs. subsidized OA or
something like that, but we need a name, and Platinum doesn't seem
inappropriate for me. Anyone has a better name?
I don't see a reason for not using a clear
