Chris argues that we must move rapidly to Gold OA (full OA) rather than Green (self-archiving). The community increasingly requires archival of the final version (e.g. for RAE).
Why should OA publishers (like BMC) mimic conventional ones like Elsevier and try to do all the process of publication (from registration to archiving).
The first copy costs (in OA publishers) is 5 USD (sic). The rest of the 1500-3500 is up for grabs…
Functions of publishing:
- registration
- certification (peer review)
- dissemination
- archiving
- navigation (overlay services)
Non-exclusive licences and repositories can provide:
- repos and DLs can take care of registration as well as dissemination
- publishers provide certification (peer review) and navigation
- markets for certification and navigation become comptetive through standard non-exclusive licensing.
Final copy MUST come back to the authors and their institution – if the publisher provides additional essential value it may have to be bought back (at a guaranteed price).
Overlays can provide:
- usage impact
- citation and co-citations
- data and text mining
- …