China on the Side of the Angels for Mandating Green OA

My gratitude to Iryna Kuchma for having pointed out my error in the posting below, and my sincere apologies to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) for having thought otherwise, even for a moment! (I ought to have known, for it was I who registered the CAS mandate on 19 August 2009!) Unlike the Netherlands, U California, U. Goettingen, Max-Planck Institutes, the COPE members, and indeed SCOAP3, CAS did first mandate Green OA, before committing to pay for Gold OA. This policy is exemplary and unexceptionable. Let's hope the rest of the world will follow it. (And shame on me for having imagined otherwise!)