RE: E-Journal overlays (was: Authors and OA)

["David Goodman" <David.Goodman@liu.edu>]

Dear Stevan,

Re-examining in the light of your definitions the American Physical
Society overlay journals -- as described in http://publish.aps.org/ -- and
operating just as earlier described by Bob Kelly of the APS in the posting
cited by Ann, they match neither of your classes.  They do not require any
preprint depositing, so they are not in class I.  They are not BOAI-2
alternative OA journals, so they are not in class II.

As articles published in the APS titles are also published in APS regular
journals, these are certainly "green" journals for self-archiving. From
the viewpoint of OA, they are otherwise merely a publisher's packaging
device, though apparently a useful one.

If some wish to discuss them further in other respects than establishing
OA, I do not think it out of place on lists other than Amsci. In the
course of revisiting the archives of the discussion, I noticed that my
concern in 1999, that such titles would prove confusing to users, has
fortunately not materialized.

Dr. David Goodman
dgoodman@liu.edu

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Subject:	Re: E-Journal overlays (was: Authors and OA)

The overlay-journal idea has two versions. One is simply a convenient way
to submit articles to existing journals -- both OA journals and non-OA
journals: by depositing the preprint in an OAI-compliant archive (BOAI-1).
The other is merely one variant of BOAI-2, alternative OA journals. It is
best to keep the two clearly separate in one's mind, at least untoil more
people get a clear idea of what institutional OA archiving and OA are all
about. This has been much discussed in the American Scientist Open Acces
Forum across the years. I suggest reviewing the archive rather than
recapitulating the discussion.

Stevan Harnad