Got Open Access? - Green Tea and Velociraptors

"The last iteration of this post made the assumption that ‘gold’ Open Access meant you had to pay for it. I of all people should know that this is what  us English scientists call ‘pish-posh’. It turns out that in reality, around 70% of journals indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) have zero author-facing charges. So an APC of $0. Gold does not mean you shell out gold for it. It just means it’s Open Access at the point of publication....

If we, as a research community, self-archive en masse, several things could be potentially achieved.

1. Global, democratic access to the research literature will become a reality for a very low cost;
2. Subscriptions to publishers for our own research will be largely redundant as everything will be OA already;
3. We create the basis for building tools, like Unpaywall, that can leverage the power of massive-scale access;
4. We save $billions every year from university libraries that can be reinvested into our students and open scholarly infrastructure;
5. We make the need for quasi-legal entities like SciHub and ResearchGate to become redundant.
6. We make the world a better place for every single human being."