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Overlooking green OA in The Guardian Andrew Brown, Digital Britain needs access to science journals, not YouTube, The Guardian, February 5, 2009. Excerpt:
Comment. Brown is right that OA is a solution to this problem. Unfortunately, he seems to think that OA can only be delivered by OA journals. Both of his objections to OA are answered by green OA, or the practice of depositing peer-reviewed postprints in OA repositories. The best-kept secret of OA is that it's compatible with publishing in a non-OA journal. (If this is news to you, see #2 and #4 in my list of Six things that researchers need to know about open access.) Update (2/6/09). Also see Stevan Harnad's comments:
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