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