From: Greg Tananbaum <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 08:17:31 -0700

Open Access is not simply about free readership, of course.  Journals
can make all of their articles free to read immediately upon
publication, but what about reuse rights?  Or the author's ability to
repost the article in an institutional or disciplinary repository?  Or
the unfettered ability to access full text and metadata via API?
These are all critical components of Open Access as well.

To that end, PLOS, SPARC, and OASPA created the Open Access Spectrum
in 2013 to help move the conversation from “Is It Open Access?” to
“How Open Is It?”  The Spectrum (on which I worked as project lead,
full disclosure) provides a clear illustration of where the policy
choices journals make reside on the spectrum between open and closed.
This encompasses not just reader rights, but also reuse rights,
copyrights, author posting rights, automatic posting, and machine
readability.

Authors around the world are using the Open Access Spectrum to make
informed decisions on where to publish based on publisher policies. In
addition, funders and other organizations use the Spectrum as a
resource to formulate and enforce their access policies and mandates.

Best Regards,
Greg


On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 5:26 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> 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