Comments on: A Three Stage Program to Become an Open Access Fundamentalist http://biopinionated.com/2008/11/13/a-three-stage-program-to-become-an-open-access-fundamentalist/ Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:42:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: sciphu http://biopinionated.com/2008/11/13/a-three-stage-program-to-become-an-open-access-fundamentalist/#comment-257 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:56:45 +0000 http://sciphu.wordpress.com/?p=794#comment-257 Stevan. I agree that I should not have left out Green OA, thank you for pointing that out.

“Unfortunately, you are giving extremely bad advice”

This post is not really meant as advice, since as you say

“Stage 3 would simply destroy journals as well as peer review”

Hence the term “fundamentalist”. I am trying to illustrate that scientific publishing urgently needs to adapt to a web-interactive-reality.

]]> By: Stevan Harnad http://biopinionated.com/2008/11/13/a-three-stage-program-to-become-an-open-access-fundamentalist/#comment-256 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:32:19 +0000 http://sciphu.wordpress.com/?p=794#comment-256 Unfortunately, you are giving extremely bad advice.

Your “Fundamentalist” Stage 3 would simply destroy journals as well as peer review.

And you leave out the most important “Stage” (and the only one really worth mentioning at all):

Send in your paper to be peer reviewed as you normally would (to whatever is the best journal for your work). Receive your reviewer comments, edit according to those comments, send your manuscript back to the journal. As soon as it is accepted, deposited into your Institutional Repository to make it Open Access.

This is called “Green OA” and it is a complement to conventional peer-reviewed publication, not a substitute for it.

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