Green Open Access: nu, goedkoop met vrije tijdschriftkeuze | I&M / I&O 2.0

[From Google's English] "It is in the discussion about Open Access, which thanks to its letter to the Chamber of Sander Dekker in the Netherlands now firmly on the agenda is to distinguish between the long and short term. distinction What do you want to achieve as soon as possible versus the ideal picture for about 10-20 years. We'll pretty quickly agree on the long-term needs: full open access to the 'version of record at the time of publication. I also think that by that time to extract the classical model of tens of thousands of highly specialized periodicals, appearing in episodes with long articles with lots of text but tricky real addition to knowing what will have changed. The changes you see now: the rise of very large magazines, elimination of issues, large-scale sharing of preprints in the hard beta angle ( ArXiv ), social sciences ( SSRN ) and economics ( RePEc preprints) and the emergence of nano publications. In the long term, through pre-print already now, the actual publish (make public) any form of outsourcing. Publishing is the press of a button.Enjoy your piece? Push the button and let the world read it. Thereafter, all additional items will run as peer review, adjustment, comments, final versions capture, retrieval, assessments, archiving, reuse etc. It will therefore be much clearer what the real added value of publishers and others that offer these services . Anyway: dis everything is important for effective scientific communication but for most areas of the slightly longer term ..."