Fast-Forward on the Green Road to Open Access: The Case Against Mixing Up Green and Gold
(March 2005)Abstract
This article is a critique of: "The 'Green' and 'Gold' Roads to Open Access:
The Case for Mixing and Matching" by Jean-Claude Guedon (in Serials Review
30(4) 2004).
Open Access (OA) means: free online access to all peer-reviewed journal
articles. Jean-Claude Guedon argues against the efficacy of author
self-archiving of peer-reviewed journal articles (the "Green" road to OA). He
suggests instead that we should convert to Open Access Publishing (the "Golden"
road to OA) by "mixing and matching" Green and Gold as follows: o First,
self-archive dissertations (not published, peer-reviewed journal articles). o
Second, identify and tag how those dissertations have been evaluated and
reviewed. o Third, self-archive unrefereed preprints (not published,
peer-reviewed journal articles). o Fourth, develop new mechanisms for
evaluating and reviewing those unrefereed preprints, at multiple levels. The
result will be OA Publishing (Gold). I argue that rather than yet another 10
years of speculation like this, what is actually needed (and imminent) is for
OA self-archiving to be mandated by research funders and institutions so that
the self-archiving of published, peer-reviewed journal articles (Green) can be
fast-forwarded to 100% OA.
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