Gold Road Research Articles

Mixing and Matching the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access—Take 2

Three years ago, the Gold and Green Roads to Open Access were viewed as complementary strategies, with repositories having the potential of gradually behaving more like journals, and vice versa. Since then, repositories and journals have been progressing on parallel tracks. Re-examining the situation, the reasoning suggested in 2004 appears still valid. Simultaneously, a knowledge economy has made of science a strategic resource. The developing world is essentially invited to contribute to world science with little or no regard to the development of an autonomous scientific capacity. Open Access, in this context, takes a new meaning with one objective to help development of local and autonomous scientific capacity. However, to do so, mixing and matching repositories with journals is needed. Brazil exemplifies this type of development and shows how the Green and Gold roads can mix and match.

The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access: An Update

The research access/impact problem arises because journal articles are not accessible to all of their would-be users; hence, they are losing potential research impact. The solution is to make all articles open access (OA, i.e., accessible online, free for all). OA articles have significantly higher citation impact than non-OA articles. There are two roads to OA: the “golden” road (publish your article in an OA journal) and the “green” road (publish your article in a non-OA journal but also self-archive it in an OA archive). About 10% of journals are gold, but over 90% are already green (i.e., they have given their authors the green light to self-archive); yet only about 10–20% of articles have been self-archived. To reach 100% OA, self-archiving needs to be mandated by researchers’ employers and funders, as they are now increasingly beginning to do.

The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access: An Update

The research access/impact problem arises because journal articles are not accessible to all of their would-be users; hence, they are losing potential research impact. The solution is to make all articles open access (OA, i.e., accessible online, free for all). OA articles have significantly higher citation impact than non-OA articles. There are two roads to OA: the “golden” road (publish your article in an OA journal) and the “green” road (publish your article in a non-OA journal but also self-archive it in an OA archive). About 10% of journals are gold, but over 90% are already green (i.e., they have given their authors the green light to self-archive); yet only about 10–20% of articles have been self-archived. To reach 100% OA, self-archiving needs to be mandated by researchers’ employers and funders, as they are now increasingly beginning to do.

Cyberscience and the Knowledge-Based Economy. Open Access and Trade Publishing: From Contradiction to Compatibility with Non-Exclusive Copyright Licensing

Open source, open content and open access are set to fundamentally alter the conditions of knowledge production and distribution. Open source, open content and open access are also the most tangible result of the shift towards e-science and digital networking. Yet, widespread misperceptions exist about the impact of this shift on knowledge distribution and scientific publishing. It is argued, on the one hand, that for the academy there principally is no digital dilemma surrounding copyright and there is no contradiction between open science and the knowledge-based economy if profits are made from non-exclusive rights. On the other hand, pressure for the ‘digital doubling’ of research articles in open access repositories (the ‘green road’) is misguided and the current model of open access publishing (the ‘gold road’) has not much future outside biomedicine. Commercial publishers must understand that business models based on the transfer of copyright have not much future either. Digital technology and its economics favour the severance of distribution from certification. What is required of universities and governments, scholars and publishers, is to clear the way for digital innovations in knowledge distribution and scholarly publishing by enabling the emergence of a competitive market that is based on non-exclusive rights. This requires no change in the law but merely an end to the praxis of copyright transfer and exclusive licensing. The best way forward for research organisations, universities and scientists is the adoption of standard copyright licences that reserve some rights, namely Attribution and No Derivative Works, but otherwise will allow for the unlimited reproduction, dissemination and re-use of the research article, commercial uses included.

The green and gold road: journal management and publishing workflow extensions for the DSpace repository platform

Articles are still the predominant format in scientific publishing, even in the web-based era. However, scientific articles often lack semantic markup. In this paper, we propose an integrated publishing and journal management workflow based on the DSpace repository software. A simple authoring and submission process, including content storage in an eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-based format and automated metadata extraction directly from the author's document, allows extending articles with structured metadata and semantic markup. Articles are no longer limited to their Portable Document Format (PDF) representation. The proposed system allows publishing content in different output formats, namely, eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) and PDF, with the help of eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) stylesheets. This helps improve the reading experience. Furthermore, based on the articles archived in the repository, the system should make the setup and maintenance of journal issues easier. The new ...

Cyberscience and the Knowledge-Based Economy, Open Access and Trade Publishing: From Contradiction to Compatibility with Nonexclusive Copyright Licensing

Open source, open content and open access are set to fundamentally alter the conditions of knowledge production and distribution. Open source, open content and open access are also the most tangible result of the shift towards e-Science and digital networking. Yet, widespread misperceptions exist about the impact of this shift on knowledge distribution and scientific publishing. It is argued, on the one hand, that for the academy there principally is no digital dilemma surrounding copyright and there is no contradiction between open science and the knowledge-based economy if profits are made from nonexclusive rights. On the other hand, pressure for the `digital doubling' of research articles in Open Access repositories (the `green road') is misguided and the current model of Open Access publishing (the `gold road') has not much future outside biomedicine. Commercial publishers must understand that business models based on the transfer of copyright have not much future either. Digital technology and its economics favour the severance of distribution from certification. What is required of universities and governments, scholars and publishers, is to clear the way for digital innovations in knowledge distribution and scholarly publishing by enabling the emergence of a competitive market that is based on nonexclusive rights. This requires no change in the law but merely an end to the praxis of copyright transfer and exclusive licensing. The best way forward for research organisations, universities and scientists is the adoption of standard copyright licenses that reserve some rights, namely Attribution and No Derivative Works, but otherwise will allow for the unlimited reproduction, dissemination and re-use of the research article, commercial uses included.

Volker grabowsky and andrew turton (eds): the gold and silver road of trade and friendship: the mcleod and richardson diplomatic missions to tai states in 1837. chiang mai: silkworm books, 2003.

volker grabowsky and andrew turton (eds): <i>the gold and silver road of trade and friendship: the mcleod and richardson diplomatic missions to tai states in 1837</i>. chiang mai: silkworm books, 2003.

学術コミュニケーションの変革と大学図書館：電子ジャーナル，オープン・アクセス，機関リポジトリ

This article describes the present situation and recent changes in scholarly communications, focusing on the Open Access and related movements and the activities and roles of university libraries in Japan. The monopolization of the scientific publication market and the increasing prices of paper journals have caused the “Serials Crisis”, and the electronic journals consortium of university libraries have some fruits and faces the increasing prices again. The stakeholders concerned with scholarly communications, researchers, universities, libraries, academic societies, publishers, research foundations, Parliament/Congress and governments, have all joined the Open Access and related movements and are developing a new business model for academic publishing and a new way of accessing academic information. There are two roads to open access. One is the creation of open access journals (i. e. the gold road), and the other is self-archiving (i. e. the green road). The university libraries should inform the faculties of these movements. Especially, the institutional repository that is one way of the self-archiving is very important to university libraries for disseminating research results.

The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access

The research access/impact problem arises because journal articles are not accessible to all of their would-be users; hence, they are losing potential research impact. The solution is to make all articles Open Access (OA; i.e., accessible online, free for all). OA articles have significantly higher citation impact than non-OA articles. There are two roads to OA: the “golden” road (publish your article in an OA journal) and the “green” road (publish your article in a non-OA journal but also self-archive it in an OA archive). Only 5% of journals are gold, but over 90% are already green (i.e., they have given their authors the green light to self-archive); yet only about 10–20% of articles have been self-archived. To reach 100% OA, self-archiving needs to be mandated by researchers' employers and funders, as the United Kingdom and the United States have recently recommended, and universities need to implement that mandate.

The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access

The research access/impact problem arises because journal articles are not accessible to all of their would-be users; hence, they are losing potential research impact. The solution is to make all articles Open Access (OA; i.e., accessible online, free for all). OA articles have significantly higher citation impact than non-OA articles. There are two roads to OA: the “golden” road (publish your article in an OA journal) and the “green” road (publish your article in a non-OA journal but also self-archive it in an OA archive). Only 5% of journals are gold, but over 90% are already green (i.e., they have given their authors the green light to self-archive); yet only about 10–20% of articles have been self-archived. To reach 100% OA, self-archiving needs to be mandated by researchers' employers and funders, as the United Kingdom and the United States have recently recommended, and universities need to implement that mandate.

Beckoning the Bold: Story of the Dawning of Idaho

Book Review| October 01 1978 Beckoning the Bold: Story of the Dawning of Idaho Beckoning the Bold: Story of the Dawning of Idaho, Rafe Gibbs.Idaho’s Gold Road, H. Leigh Gittins. Ronald H. Limbaugh Ronald H. Limbaugh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utah Historical Quarterly (1978) 46 (4): 421–422. https://doi.org/10.2307/45060915 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ronald H. Limbaugh; Beckoning the Bold: Story of the Dawning of Idaho. Utah Historical Quarterly 1 January 1978; 46 (4): 421–422. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/45060915 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressUtah Historical Quarterly Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © Copyright 1978 Utah State Historical Society1978 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.