This is when it's useful to understand the difference between true OA and "bronze OA". True OA articles have a formal license that legally guarantees the world perpetual OA status. Bronze OA isn't really OA at all, but just "free for now".

In fact, Project COUNTER in its R5 rules for separating usage stats into OA and non-OA (aka "controlled") would count use on these as "controlled" not OA. To add a bit of confusion, Project COUNTER refers just to "Gold OA" even though that's not what we normally mean by "Gold" as the PC definition includes individual contractually-OA articles within a hybrid journal. (We usually use Gold OA to mean the entire journal is OA, like PLOS One).

Here's what the PC R5 document says about content Charlies is describing:
"Platforms providing content that has been made freely available but is not OA_Gold (e.g. free for marketing purposes or because the title offers free access after a year) MUST be tracked as Controlled."


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On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 10:18 AM Remy, Charlie <Charlie-Remy@utc.edu> wrote:

Hi All,


I’m wondering about people’s thoughts on weeding print journals whose archives are open access?

 

For example, some large publishers like Elsevier have open archives with a moving wall (like JSTOR):

https://www.elsevier.com/about/open-science/open-access/open-archive

 

Are you confident enough that these archives will remain open in the long term to weed the print volumes? Or are you concerned that they might put up a paywall at some point?

 

Thanks. 


Charlie Remy

 

 

 

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