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Stevan Harnad, Automatic search for OA versions of cited articles, Open Access Archivangelism, July 8, 2008. Excerpt:
Comment. Paracite is great and I'm glad Stevan had a chance to remind everyone that it exists. (It hasn't gotten much notice recently.) But I'd answer Matt's question differently. Matt is right that facing a pay-per-view screen means you didn't click on a link to an OA copy of an article, even if there is an OA edition of the same article elsewhere. And he's right it would be very useful to click on a citation in a reference list and go straight to an OA copy of the full-text. That's a reason to publish in OA journals. But it's also a reason to link to OA repository copies when they exist, even when we also link to TA copies in TA journals, and it's a reason to deposit all our paper in OA repositories. We could shift the question to the relative strategic priorities of gold and green OA, but we don't have to. Giving priority to gold OA is not a reason to change the definition of OA to exclude green OA, any more than giving priority to green OA is a reason to change the definition of OA to exclude gold OA. That was the original question. Let's pursue green and gold OA in parallel and hold to the definition of OA which embraces both. |