Dear I appreciate these discussions and clarifications. For me, and for most people who are nex to the subjects and I meet, "Gold open access" and "green open access" are confusing terms, even though they have been used for a long time in official documents.
Green refers to nature and gold to expensive. What else for newcomers (= most people in fact) ? And nature is not necessarily cheap, while gold is most of the time expensive. What is "cheap open access" ? By cheap open access, I mean the full price of publishing a work (most of the time online only) in such a way that its overal price be as low as possible and ONLY reflect the actual costs ? The best method I can think of is forget about ANY journals, and consider as "publication quality paper" a work that is published anywhere online, be it on an institutional (open) repository or any website. Stop counting papers but only refer to their quality as measured for example effective evaluation of a committee made of human beings and not anymore by any accounting technique. Yes, this would suppose that on a per document base, or per person base, a committee would have to do actual work. But this is done already for most grant attribution or tenure selection processes. Maybe not yet by the actual reading of the papers and comments about his own papers an authors would write. Comments on a public website where the paper is published could also be taken into account in the evaluation. Many people agree today to consider that the peer review system does not work anymore due to a too large number of submitted papers and a too large number of journals/reviews. Is there any other solution than dumping the reviews, the journals, the papers as they are evaluated and listed today ? I am not the one proposing this . I have discussed the subject with Pierre-Louis Lions, a famous French mathematician, professor at the College de France and president of the board of the Ecole Normale supérieure who mentioned such a procedure he would appreciate and support. Best regards, Nicolas -- Nicolas Pettiaux, phd - [email protected] Open@work - Une Société libre utilise des outils libres _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
