Harnad, Stevan (2011) Gold Open Access Publishing Must Not Be Allowed to Retard the Progress of Green Open Access Self-Archiving. Logos (forthcoming) Gold Open Access Publishing Must Not Be Allowed to Retard the Progress of Green Open Access Self-Archivin

Abstract. Universal Open Access (OA) is fully within the reach of the global research community: Research institutions and funders need merely mandate (green) OA self-archiving of the final, refereed drafts of all journal articles immediately upon acceptance for publication. The money to pay for gold OA publishing will only become available if universal green OA eventually makes subscriptions unsustainable. Paying for gold OA pre-emptively today, without first having mandated green OA not only squanders scarce money, but it delays the attainment of universal OA. Open Access (OA) means free online access. What made Open Access possible was the advent of the networked online medium: The Internet, and eventually the Web, empowered the authors of digital works to give them away free for all online if they wished. The term “Open Access ” was first coined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), sponsored by the Open Society Institute (OSI) in 2001. But the idea of providin