Sentences with phrase «oa advocate»

OA advocate Sandy Thatcher gave a thorough overview of the history of OA publishing, the different types of OA, and various OA publishers such as The National Academies Press and Athabasca Press, and various funding models for OA including revenue from print, author fees, foundations, endowments, subscription, patronage and advertising.

That makes the journal a «mishmash... neither an unrefereed proposal platform nor a refereed journal,» says OA advocate Stevan Harnad, a cognitive scientist at the University of Quebec, Montreal, in Canada.

But transparency raises awareness about the cost of publishing and helps boost competition, says Leo Waaijers, an OA advocate and retired librarian at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Stevan Harnad, a veteran OA advocate at the University of Québec, Montreal, in Canada, does not think the European Union should embrace that strategy — he calls it «fool's Gold» — because publishers are unlikely to view a flip toward Gold OA as being in their interest.

In addition, Enserink noted that «[w] hether all 28 E.U. states are ready to act remains to be seen, and even some OA advocates are critical of the approach that the Netherlands has adopted for its own scientists: an emphatic choice for Gold OA, in which authors pay publishers to make their papers freely available.

OA advocates say a clear mandate to make all E.U. - funded papers publicly available would be hugely significant, and would be another step in what they hope is a complete transition to OA.

Not exact matches

Below is a listing of Small Business specialists in each OA whose primary role is to serve as small businesses advocates.