Critique of Criteria for "Full Membership" in OASPA ("Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association")

Amsciforum 2013-03-10

Summary:

It is exceedingly difficult to see the value to OA itself of the following: (1) OASTP officially includes, as "full members" of its "OA Scholarly Publishers Association," publishers that oppose immediate OA Self-Archiving by their authors. (Such publishers can now even proudly advertise themselves as "full OA" journal publishers in good standing if they publish one single libre Gold OA journal while forbidding Green OA self-archiving for their other 999 journals.) (2) OASTP officially excludes from full membership in its "OA Scholarly Publishers Association" publishers every one of whose 999 journals are "gratis" Gold OA, perhaps not even charging a penny for it, as not being "full OA" journal publishers in good standing, because they are not "libre" Gold OA.

Link:

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/675-guid.html

Updated:

10/18/2010, 05:30

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป Amsciforum

Tags:

oa.new oa.gold oa.mandates oa.green oa.libre oa.gratis institutional mandates oa.publishing oaspa oxford university press oa.ir oa.repositories oa.policies oa.journals

Authors:

stevanharnad

Date tagged:

03/10/2013, 13:07

Date published:

12/13/2009, 10:58