From: "Beall, Jeffrey" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:45:20 -0600 Dear Jean-Claude Guédon: There are some, including me, who make the distinction between gold open-access and platinum open-access. Gold = free to reader, author pays article processing charge Platinum = free to reader, free to author This distinction is important and has value, I think, because it shows two different funding models for open-access publishing. So I do believe, as you say, that gold really means author-pay journals. Conflating the two models under a single appellation initiates confusion and ambiguity. Using the more precise terminology enables clearer communication and does not semantically lump together two things that are inherently different. Jeffrey Beall, MA, MSLS, Associate Professor Scholarly Initiatives Librarian Auraria Library University of Colorado Denver Denver, Colo. 80204 USA [log in to unmask] From: Jean-Claude Guédon <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:29:19 -0400 Thank you for this URL. I listened to it and said to myself: only the French (I was born there) can defend open access with lopsided arguments... Two noted mistakes: * PLoS does not practice peer review and relies on comments after publication !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! * Gold, i.e. OA journals, really means author-pay OA journals !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course, in the latter case, many publishers are intent on propagating this false conflation of Gold and author-pay as it is the business model they use to preserve their revenue stream in the OA context. The battle for vocabulary and words is also part of the battle for OA. Jean-Claude Guédon Le lundi 15 avril 2013 à 16:50 -0400, LIBLICENSE a écrit : to the interests of this list. --