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This comment was reported in the "independent daily student newspaper" - so its record of the debate will probably not be totally accurate. But I would like to reassure Prof Moses about Open Access to Women's Studies. The following are listed as the two top journals"in women's studies: Gender and Society (Sage Publishing) and Signs (University of Chicago Press) and Sherpa Romeo lists both of these journals as allowing preprint deposit and postprint deposit with embargo. -- Les Carr On 25 Apr 2009, at 14:48, David Prosser wrote: > Interestingly, the main objection against the policy as reported was: > > "Open access will kill the journals you need during your career," > women's studies professor and university senator Claire Moses said. > "It's as simple as that." > > That is not a gold/green OA misunderstanding. That’s just a > misunderstanding. It is not clear to me that this would have been > cleared-up if the Maryland resolution had removed all mention of > journals – some academics fear that green OA will destroy journals. > > I know that some feel that all the world’s ills can be layed at the > door of gold OA, but this really doesn’t look like a case of so- > called ‘gold fever’. > > David > > David C Prosser PhD > Director > SPARC Europe > > Tel: +44 (0) 1865 277 614 > Mobile: +44 (0) 7974 673 888 > Web: www.sparceurope.org > From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask] > ] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad > Sent: 24 April 2009 17:27 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Gold Fever: Read and Weep > > ** Apologies for cross-posting ** > > Those who still harbor any doubt that the mixing of talk about Gold > OA publishing or funding with plans for Green OA self-archiving > mandates causes anything but confusion, distraction, delay and > failure to make progress toward universal OA: Please readPeter > Suber's comments on this this latest fiasco at the University of > Maryland -- and weep. > > And then please trust some sound advice from a weary and wizened but > world-wise archivangelist: > Disentangle completely all talk and policy concerning the > requirement to self-archive refereed journal articles (the Green OA > mandate) from any advice concerning whether or not to publish in > Gold OA journals, and from any plans to help authors pay for Gold OA > journal publishing charges, should they elect to publish in a fee- > based Gold OA journal. > Otherwise this mindless and thoughtless Gold Fever will just usher > in yet another half-decade of failure to reach for what is already > fully within the global research community's grasp: universal Green > OA through universal Green OA self-archiving mandates adopted by > universities and research funders worldwide. > > Stevan Harnad > American Scientist Open Access Forum