Re: Directory of Open Access Journals

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:50:14 +0000

Dear Sara & Lars:

How easily words can be misconstrued! I had suggested:

> 2.1 Cost: Journals that use a funding model that charges any users or
> their institutions for the online version are not included unless the
> online version is also accessible to all users toll-free (full-text,
> immediately, permanently, downloadable from the web by anyone, any
> time). Charging for a parallel print edition is acceptable.

But of course it should instead be (see CAPS)

     2.1 Cost: Journals that use a funding model that charges any users or
     their institutions for the online version are not included unless the
     online version is also OPENLY accessible to EVERYONE ON THE WEB
     toll-free (full-text, immediately, permanently, downloadable from
     the web by anyone, any time). Charging for a parallel print VERSION
     is ALSO acceptable -- AS LONG AS IT IS NOT A PRECONDITION FOR ACCESS
     TO THE OPEN-ACCESS ONLINE VERSION.

Wordier, alas, but I think at last conveys the real point.

Stevan Harnad
Received on Thu Jan 15 2004 - 12:50:14 GMT