From: "Andrew A. Adams" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 15:50:11 +0900

Rick Anderson wrote:

> Researchers tend to see OA models as presenting a mixed bag of upsides
> and downsides (as any publishing model does).

Open Access is NOT a publishing model. It is a descriptive binary property of
an article: is it available electronically, without fee, from an easily
locatable source (gratis OA; and with a suitable license for libre OA)?

Green OA is not 8directly) about publishing models (though if we reach close
to 100% Green gratis OA there may be consequences for some business models of
publishing).

There are many routes to OA, some involving new publishing models, but OA is
a description not a model.

Professor Andrew A Adams
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Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan
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