Oalib -gold oa or green oa?

The ARC(Australian Research Council) has introduced a new open access policy for ARC funded research which takes effect from 1 January 2013. According to this new policy the ARC requires that any publications arising from an ARC supported research project must be deposited into an open access institutional repository within a twelve (12) month period from the date of publication.

The ARC understands that some researchers may not be able to meet the new requirements initially because of current legal or contractual obligations. In these cases, Final Reports must provide reasons why publications derived from a Project, Award, or Fellowship have not been deposited in an open access institutional repository within the twelve month period. The policy will be incorporated into all new Funding Rules and Agreements released after 1 January 2013. It will not be applied retrospectively to pre-existing Funding Rules and Agreements.

This policy suggests public organizations prefer to a mix approach to open access via ‘green’ and ‘gold’ OA routes. It seems that both ‘gold’ oa and ‘green’ oa are not perfect in the context of academic publication for the time being. Oalib(www.oalib.com) is also a mixture of gold oa and green oa, which provides free service of searching scholar articles content online all around the world. Oalib is available online at www.oalib.com.