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From: Heather Morrison hgmor...@sfu.ca
To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org
Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 4:11 AM
Subject: Re: Growth rate of OA mandates?
Comments (Heather):
How libraries can contribute to improving access for all:
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 9:04 AM, JQ Johnson j...@uoregon.edu wrote:
Does anyone have a recommendation for a brief introduction to licensing
that helps a typical professor understand those obscure deposit mandate
terms like paid up or nonexclusive, or for that matter 17 USC 205(e)
as it
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The Undergraduate Science Librarian wrote:
For a small institution like mine, having our own institutional
repository might not make sense. We probably don¿t have the library
staff to run it
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SUMMARY: Leo Waaijers suggests in Ariadne that funder OA mandates
impose unfair conditions on authors because there are not enough
Gold OA journals to publish in. So instead, funders should fund
research on
Another option for smaller libraries is consortial repositories
[disclosure: I work for a library consortium]. If your consortium
does not have a collaborative repository, my recommendation is to
inquire about whether one can be set up.In many cases, an interim
solution for the really small
In assessing current open access policy, it is advantageous to
consider where scholarship is heading in the future, rather than
basing current decision-making on artefacts of the past.
For example, to take full advantage of the emerging potential of the
internet for scholarship, it is desirable
