green OA (open access)

See the following -

Tutorial 19b: Open Access Definitions And Clarifications, Part 2: Gold And Green

Mike Taylor | svpow.com | November 16, 2012

Last time, we looked at what the term “open access” actually means. We noted that its been widely abused, so that when you need to be specific about the full meaning you need to say “BOAI-compliant”; we recognised that much of what is described as OA is really only “gratis OA”, or as Ross Mounce called it, “gratis access”; and we noted that the term “libre open access” is literally meaningless and should be avoided. Read More »