Can repositories solve the access problem? | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-09-07

Summary:

"The progressive RCUK policy on open access has recently come under fire, particularly from humanities scholars, for favouring Gold OA over Green. For various reasons — and I won’t, for now, go into the question of which of these reasons are and aren’t sound — they favour an approach to open access where publishers keep final versions of their papers behind paywalls, but drafts are deposited in institutional repositories (IRs) and people who want to read the paper can have access to the drafts.

It’s appealing to think that this relatively lightweight way of solving the access problem can work. Unfortunately, I’m not convinced it can, for several reasons. I’ll discuss these below, not so much with the intention of persuading people that Gold is a better approach, but with the hope that those of you who are Green advocates have seen things that I’ve missed and you’ll be able to explain why it can work after all...."

Link:

https://svpow.com/2013/03/02/can-repositories-solve-the-access-problem/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.green oa.obstacles oa.interoperability oa.uk oa.rcuk oa.policies oa.gold oa.versions oa.embargoes oa.licensing oa.compliance oa.implementation oa.deposits oa.search oa.metadata oa.libre oa.journals oa.repositories

Date tagged:

09/07/2018, 08:45

Date published:

09/07/2018, 04:45