From: "Guédon Jean-Claude" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 16:15:34 +0000

At the very least, the question was poorly phrased because of  its incorporating redundant terms: a "fully open access journal", by definition, does not charge subscription fees to anyone. As for SCOAP3-type agreements, they should not be treated as subscriptions.

Incidentally, and once again: Gold OA means an open access journal, and it implies nothing with regard to the financing of that journal. When APCs are involved, the journal belongs to a subset of Gold, and, properly speaking, it should be called APC-Gold.

Jean-Claude Guédon

On 2019-11-06 4:00 p.m., LIBLICENSE wrote:
From: "Mittermaier, Bernhard" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 20:00:38 +0000

Hi Rachel,  Don't you think the question was asked in a biased way?

T&F asked:
"would you submit your work to a fully open access journal which charged for publication and published no subscription content?" 

What do you think about:
"would you submit your work to a journal which publishes all articles open access free for everybody to read and does not charge the libraries for subcription fees?"

By using a non-neutral way of explaining Gold OA in the question you might have influenced the answers.

Best regards,
Bernhard
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