From: Stevan Harnad <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:12:16 -0500 On 2013-11-17, at 2:27 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:02:15 -0600 > > Why should Green OA not apply to books if and when the authors are > receiving no royalty payments? What difference is there in the > intellectual content that justifies treating them any differently? If > money is not involved as a reward to authors, why should they not be > under the same mandate as journal article authors? It seems artificial > to create this digital divide between books and journals. Both > contribute to the advance of knowledge, and access to both is > important. One thing at a time, Sandy: Green mandates have not yet prevailed for journal articles,where the case is more clearcut and exception-free. (Let's not, like Stephen Leacock's fabled horseman, jump on a horse "and gallop off in all directions" (articles, books, data, software, Green, Gold, CC-BY.) There is one priority, and it will usher in all the rest: mandate Green for journal articles (Liège model immediate-institutional-deposit, whether or not embargoed, as a condition for funding, employment, evaluation). Do that, and we'll soon have 100% OA for articles, and then all the rest will follow too. Keep running off in all directions, as we've been doing for 10 years now, and we'll keep getting nowhere, fast… A word to the wise, from the wizened... Chrs, Stevan