The persistent Green vs Gold OA controversy and its deep flaws

peter.suber's bookmarks 2017-06-25

Summary:

"Arguments against APC funding like the one above are both frequent and angry-sounding, and have been flowing in again from the OAI10 Conference in Geneva twitter feed. They’re also problematic. The way the argument is put out suggests that the dichotomy is between APC-based Gold and Green OA. While it’s an understandable claim for more funding for Green OA-based infrastructure to which one is far from being unsympathetic, it follows a biased logic: 

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While fully respecting the demands for a more Green OA-friendly approach in research funder policies, my view is that since we happen to have this enormous opportunity that library-managed APC funding offers in terms of OA advocacy, it’s in everyone’s best interest to try to exploit it leaving aside controversies that divert the attention from the rather evident fact that it’s a co-existence of different models we’re clearly heading towards."

Link:

http://strathoa.tumblr.com/post/162161204095/the-persistent-green-vs-gold-oa-controversy-and

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

Tags:

oa.new oa.transition oa.uk oa.policies oa.green oa.gold oa.debates oa.progress oa.fees oa.funds oa.advocacy oa.strategies oa.repositories oa.journals

Date tagged:

06/25/2017, 08:33

Date published:

06/25/2017, 04:50