A discussion about Open Access ~/

"Last week, Richard Poynder (@RickyPo on Twitter) organised an informal get together around open access (OA), that was attended by researchers, publishers and librarians. A broad range of points were discussed, but one aspect caught my attention in particular, which I wanted to write down. I will start with a comment by Stephen Pinfield (@StephenPinfield on Twitter), who mentioned that many proponents of the green OA route (which I consider myself one of) see it as a way to disseminate research and not as a business model (which the golden OA route, the dominant model in the UK, certainly has become1). The views of these green OA proponents are often based, rarely explicitly though, on author processing charge (APC), albeit very low ones."