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 [log in to unmask] Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/