The Long Run

[Brian Simboli <brs4@lehigh.edu>]

A few questions for Stevan Harnad [AND OTHERS], stated rather cryptically.

1. With respect to achieving universal open access to the results of
research, what is your vision of the best possible world to strive for "in
the long run" (to borrow a phrase of which economists are fond)?  Would it
be a future in which the traditional journal as we know it still exists,
or would it be one in which that model is thoroughly deconstructed, such
that articles subsist independently of an organizing format such as a
"journal"?

2. What role does the green road play in achieving that best possible
world? For example, is it a dialectical moment toward a world of pure gold
access, or is "green"/ in se/ a worthwhile goal, regardlesss whether the
purely gold universe is ever achieved?

Thanks

Brian Simboli
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