Never Pay Pre-Emptively For Gold OA Before First Mandating Green OA

Amsciforum 2013-03-10

Summary:

It is a flagrant waste of money to pay publishers pre-emptively for Gold Open Access publishing without first mandating Green Open Access self-archiving. Not only does a Green OA Mandate provide OA for all research output, but, as the Houghton Report has recently shown, it has an order of magnitude greater benefit to cost ratio (40X) compared to Gold OA. http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/708-guid.html

Link:

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/714-guid.html

Updated:

10/18/2010, 05:30

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » Amsciforum

Tags:

oa.new oa.gold oa.mandates oa.green institutional mandates houghton report idoa pre-emptive payment john houghton trojan horse springer oa.ir oa.scoap3 oa.hybrid oa.repositories oa.policies oa.journals oa.cope

Authors:

stevanharnad

Date tagged:

03/10/2013, 12:59

Date published:

02/23/2010, 07:43