** Cross-Posted **
Since almost the beginning, the inadvertent and intentional conflation
of Green OA (Self-Archiving) with Gold OA (publishing) has been a great
obstacle to OA itself. I used to call it Drubbing Peter to Pox Paul:
     http://education.guardian.co.uk/higherfeedback/story/0,11056,1364556,00.html
and Peter Suber has since 2006 been calling it "JAM" (Journal/Archive
Mix-Up):
     http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007/11/more-jam-about-nih-policy.html

Please do whatever you can to dispel this error as it is really holding
up progress. In most cases, it is merely the result of ignorance or
misunderstanding. Put in the case of those who are lobbying against the
NIH Bill, it is deliberately being used as a way to impugn Green OA
Self-Archiving mandates by pretending they are Gold-OA publishing
mandates.

Stevan Harnad
AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM:
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
     http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/

UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS:
If you have adopted or plan to adopt an policy of providing Open Access
to your own research article output, please describe your policy at:
     http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
     http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html
     http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html

OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY:
     BOAI-1 ("Green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal
     http://romeo.eprints.org/
OR
     BOAI-2 ("Gold"): Publish your article in an open-access journal if/when
     a suitable one exists.
     http://www.doaj.org/
AND
     in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article
     in your own institutional repository.
     http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
     http://archives.eprints.org/
     http://openaccess.eprints.org/