From: Bill Cohen <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:04:17 -0400

What about a website that allows free OA, but requires registration
(email, name/address/affiliation/specialty)....

...but no charge for acccess.

Is that considered OA or would it have a special designation?

Bill Cohen


On 8/5/14, 6:43 PM, LIBLICENSE wrote:
>
> From: Stevan Harnad <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 09:26:24 -0400
>
> A peer-reviewed journal article is either accessible to all its
> potential users or it is not accessible to all its potential users —
> only to those at subscribing institutions.
>
> Open Access (OA) is intended to make articles accessible (online) to
> all their potential users, not just to subscribers, so all potential
> users can read, use, apply and build upon the findings.
>
> OA comes in two forms:
>
> * Gratis OA means an article is accessible online to all its potential users.
>
> * Libre OA means an article is accessible online to all its potential
> users and all users also have certain re-use rights, such as
> text-mining by machine, and re-publication.
>
> For individual researchers and for the general public the most
> important and urgent form of OA is Gratis OA.
>
> The reason Gratis OA is so important is that otherwise the research is
> inaccessible except to subscribers: OA maximizes research uptake,
> usage, applications, impact and progress.
>
> [SNIP]
>
> Stevan Harnad