Digital Rights Management by Catherine A. Lemmer Carla P. Wale

Author:Catherine A. Lemmer,Carla P. Wale
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.
Published: 2012-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Green and Gold OA

OA resources are often categorized as either green or gold. This vocabulary, used by Suber and attributed to Stevan Harnad,[9] is widely used by OA advocates and librarians. Green OA refers to the practice of self-archiving—uploading a work to an open website. The work may or may not have already been published elsewhere, and as a result the copyright holder may have placed limitations on its use beyond the author’s initial act of self-archiving. In Harnad’s vocabulary, this is green OA because the publishers have given the author the “green light” to post the work on an OA website. Typically, green OA works are uploaded to an institutional repository or a disciplinary repository.

On the other hand, gold OA refers to the practice of publishing a work in an OA venue, such as a journal. In gold OA, the work is free to all readers at the point of publication. To recover their costs, some gold OA publishers require processing charges from the authors or their institutions. The gold in gold OA is often presumed to be associated with the exchange of funds, but most OA journals require no fees for publication.[10] Because gold OA works are published with the original intention to never require payment for access, gold OA copyright holders are more likely to permit others to redistribute and reuse the work through an open license.

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