Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] Fostering Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications: A Call for Action

2020-04-21 Thread Dr Andrew A. Adams
he general code-base to include Amazon's own developments). -- Dr Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/ ___ GO

[GOAL] Wired: "The FTC Is Cracking Down on Predatory Science Journals"

2016-09-19 Thread Andrew A. Adams
https://www.wired.com/2016/09/ftc-cracking-predatory-science-journals/ The FTC is suing OMICS for unfair business practices, apparently. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director

Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] BLOG: The case for Open Research: the mismeasurement problem

2016-07-12 Thread Andrew A. Adams
also be submitted. So, they look to measure both the quality of the best and the total quantity. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji

Re: [GOAL] SSRN Sellout to Elsevier

2016-05-18 Thread Andrew A. Adams
il and file storage in universities, mostly under the control of the institution. In recent years, however, a large proportion of universities have purchased loud email and file storage services (mostly from Google and Microsoft). -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@me

Re: [GOAL] BLOG: Is CC-BY really a problem or are we boxing shadows?

2016-03-04 Thread Andrew A. Adams
-BY-SA or in a few cases CC-BY-ND. I explained why CC-BY-NC is not a good license because of its utter lack of clarity in what it means. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Cent

Re: [GOAL] BLOG: Is CC-BY really a problem or are we boxing shadows?

2016-03-03 Thread Andrew A. Adams
ay under "all rights reserved" licenses) for material which is controversial or sensitive. However, these cases are rare and should be used very sparingly. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and

[GOAL] Re: Insistence by researchers that we do not make metadata available prior to publication for Nature, NEJM and Cell journals

2015-11-27 Thread Andrew A. Adams
l July 2015, a delay of two and a half years! I was also not informed when it actually appeared. -- Professor Andrew A. Adams アダムス アンドリュー Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics a...@meiji

[GOAL] Re: One way to expand the OA movement: be more inclusive

2015-06-02 Thread Andrew A. Adams
access is not the same as the legal right to access. Consider Aaron Shwartz' case. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier: Trying to squeeze the virtual genie back into the physical bottle

2015-05-27 Thread Andrew A. Adams
the button). -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info

[GOAL] Re: CC-BY journal draft policy: possibly of interest

2015-05-22 Thread Andrew A. Adams
from the personal rights of the model depicted. There's a good discussion of the US law on this here: http://tinyurl.com/2awd4do (sorry for the tinyurl, but it's a long URL and my mailer would munge it. It's a lawyer's personal blog rising.blackstar.com) -- Professor Andrew A Adams

[GOAL] Re: International survey on scholarly communication - and its relevance for open access

2015-05-22 Thread Andrew A. Adams
of a command-line stats tool - the commercial equivalent S is rarely used). Academia.edu is included as a tool to promote one's work, but not as a tool to find the work of others. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business

[GOAL] Re: $1, 300 per article or $25, 000 annual subsidy can generously support small scholar-led OA journal publishing

2015-05-15 Thread Andrew A. Adams
) publish a large proportion of the journals and refereed conference proceedings that constitute the academic computer science literature. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre

[GOAL] Re: Sharing and reuse - not within a commercial economy, but within a sharing economy

2015-04-13 Thread Andrew A. Adams
internal discussion they released them on their website under the same CC license I'd used - CC-BY-NC, which I later realised is the wrong license and I now use CC-BY-SA where I can and CC-By where I can't require SA.) -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor

[GOAL] Re: CC-BY and open access question: who is the Licensor?

2015-04-13 Thread Andrew A. Adams
? (*) Just in caxe anyone here is unaware, the whole CC license approach was derived from ideas in the Free Software movement, although there are some divergences from Free Software ideas in the implementation. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School

[GOAL] Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: The Qualis and the silence of the Brazilian researchers

2015-04-06 Thread Andrew A. Adams
a paper in an OA (no-APCs) journal with 2013 SJR of 0.9 which has received well over 100 citations) would be acceptable. It had to be an an IF1 journal for inclusion in the REF return. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business

[GOAL] 114 million scholarly documents on the web; 27 million toll-free

2014-10-15 Thread Andrew A. Adams
/journal.pone.0093949 PLOS OnePaper: https://tinyurl.com/pwefk88 -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http

[GOAL] Re: Librarians, copyright and the IR

2014-09-29 Thread Andrew A. Adams
as individuals can't do anything to change this. Senior tenured professors may be able to ignore publication locus, but even they may be subject to reviews (e.g. REF) where nothaving published in the most prestigious places can harm them. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp

[GOAL] Re: Library Vetting of Repository Deposits

2014-09-24 Thread Andrew A. Adams
. It is these librarians that I wish to get out of the way, not librarians in general. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan

[GOAL] Re: The Open Access Interviews: Dagmara Weckowska, lecturer in Business and Innovation at the University of Sussex

2014-09-22 Thread Andrew A. Adams
to call a spade a spade and a mandate a mandate, seems odd. Perhaps it's that this policy came from a bottom up development and not a senior management idea so they're unwilling to give it a strong name. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School

[GOAL] Re: When Gold OA isn't free to non-subscribers!!

2014-03-27 Thread Andrew A. Adams
. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info

[GOAL] Re: Charles Oppenheim on who owns the rights to scholarly articles

2014-02-05 Thread Andrew A. Adams
as a quality proxy, it's not something one should do individually. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http

[GOAL] Re: Public (Library) Access: A Predictable Publish Sop/Swap for Open Access

2014-02-05 Thread Andrew A. Adams
with their publishing profits [surpluses] than academic communication; or academics who've not properly looked at the proposals and who conflate OA with removing peer review, or with Author-pays Gold OA only). Their staff articles are usually just as wrong-headed. -- Professor Andrew A Adams

[GOAL] Re: Charles Oppenheim on who owns the rights to scholarly articles

2014-02-04 Thread Andrew A. Adams
far. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info

[GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] Unanimity (Re: Monographs)

2013-11-26 Thread Andrew A. Adams
models, but OA is a description not a model. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info

[GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] Unanimity (Re: Monographs)

2013-11-26 Thread Andrew A. Adams
for a CC-BY-NC license. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info

[GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] Big Deals, Big Macs and Consortial Licensing

2013-11-25 Thread Andrew A. Adams
step: lobby each institution to adopt a Liege-style ID/OA mandate. Once we've got that step taken by enough institutions then we cantalk about the next steps. Otherwise we stumble and get nowhere or at least not very far (as we have mostly been doing for well two decades). -- Professor Andrew

[GOAL] Re: Query about OA Publisher

2013-10-16 Thread Andrew A. Adams
Actually ... Sciknow is on Beall's list http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ So it is. I managed to miss it when checking through (I promise you I did look before posting - I should have looked twice, I guess). Sorry to have wasted people's time. -- Professor Andrew A Adams

[GOAL] Query about OA Publisher

2013-10-15 Thread Andrew A. Adams
Has anyone come across SciKnow (www.sciknow.org) and have an opinion about their legitimacy? (They're not on Beall's list.) -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre

[GOAL] Re: Media research analyst at Exane BNP Paribas Sami Kassab on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

2013-10-07 Thread Andrew A. Adams
deposited their papers in the early days of OA. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info

[GOAL] Re: Forthcoming research: open access article processing fees

2013-10-03 Thread Andrew A. Adams
but not limited to those from developing economies). -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info

[GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] Sour Grapes in the SSP Scholarly Scullery

2013-09-28 Thread Andrew A. Adams
). -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info

[GOAL] University-as-publisher goes OA, but fails as University-as-provider

2013-09-11 Thread Andrew A. Adams
academics produce far more articles in a year than are published in these 40 journals, and without a mandate many of these articles are probably languishing inaccessible behind paywalls at publisher sites. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate

[GOAL] Re: Paid Gold vs. Free Gold

2013-04-19 Thread Andrew A. Adams
haven't checked from home). -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info

[GOAL] Re: Paid Gold vs. Free Gold

2013-04-19 Thread Andrew A. Adams
Jan is right. It appears my institution has a subscription that I didn't know about - when trying to access the papers from home, I now get directed to a paywall. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration

[GOAL] Re: March 2013 issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

2013-03-03 Thread Andrew A. Adams
, or the WHOA Directive. Whoa, dude, that's seriously good news. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http

[GOAL] Re: US Presidential Open Access Directive: 3 Cheers and 8 Suggestions

2013-02-25 Thread Andrew A. Adams
repository, not all disciplines have a cohesive enough body to run one and many disciplines have very fuzzy edges. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business

[GOAL] Re: US Presidential Open Access Directive: 3 Cheers and 8 Suggestions

2013-02-24 Thread Andrew A. Adams
cross-harvesting from ArXiv to PMC. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info

[GOAL] Re: US Presidential Open Access Directive: 3 Cheers and 8 Suggestions

2013-02-24 Thread Andrew A. Adams
Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/ ___ GOAL mailing

[GOAL] Re: US Presidential Open Access Directive: 3 Cheers and 8 Suggestions

2013-02-24 Thread Andrew A. Adams
, will become much much easier to take. Otherwise we're back to finding people passionate enough to push through openness in every single discipline and most disciplines are nowhere near as cohesive as HE Physics and Crystallography. -- Professor Andrew A Adams

[GOAL] Re: US Presidential Open Access Directive: 3 Cheers and 8 Suggestions

2013-02-23 Thread Andrew A. Adams
funding applications and reports on current/recently completed projects can then admit papers as evidence of track record/project success only if they are accompanied by a pointer to the deposit. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School

[GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] New Year's challenge for repository developers and managers: awesome cross-search

2013-01-12 Thread Andrew A. Adams
in the traditional manner, not about some radical new form of publication. Alma, could you provide the source of the issues you highlight? The URL you gave is just to the format of how to submit, but does not include the actual remit of the inquiry. -- Professor Andrew A Adams

[GOAL] Aaron Swartz RIP

2013-01-12 Thread Andrew A. Adams
/prosecutor-as-bully https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/farewell-aaron-swartz http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre

[GOAL] Re: Further Fallout From Finch Folly

2012-12-19 Thread Andrew A. Adams
Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/ ___ GOAL

[GOAL] Re: The UK Gold Rush: A Hand-Out from the British Government

2012-12-06 Thread Andrew A. Adams
their votes. Multiple submissions of the exact same question look like an orchestrated campaign and have less impact than individual questions on the same topic but with varied wording and emphasis addressing substantially the same issue. -- Professor Andrew A Adams

[GOAL] Re: Hitler, Mother Teresa, and Coke

2012-11-06 Thread Andrew A. Adams
they were publishing rather than simply seeing it as one more cash cow -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan

[GOAL] Simple Explanation of the Green Road

2012-09-22 Thread Andrew A. Adams
with the approach, please feel free to refer people to this guide. http://www.a-cubed.info/OA/ -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University

[GOAL] (no subject)

2012-08-02 Thread Andrew A. Adams
the BOAI and by the those with their own rent-seeking profits in mind. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan

[GOAL] Re: Reaching for the Reachable

2012-07-14 Thread Andrew A. Adams
to take in sufficient numbers to get us moving towards the final goal, and to gain us a significant benefit in the short term. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre

[GOAL] Re: Why should publishers agree to Green OA?

2012-06-20 Thread Andrew A. Adams
to this unbelievable FUD. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info

[GOAL] Re: Dreadful Daily Mail article on Open Access

2012-06-18 Thread Andrew A. Adams
publishing rents. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info

[GOAL] UK's EPSRC Reminder Scientists of OA Mandate

2012-05-16 Thread Andrew A . Adams
of that long URL: http://tinyurl.com/c68jt93 -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info

[GOAL] Re: Meaning of Open Access

2012-05-10 Thread Andrew A . Adams
. Without access nothing else can follow. Indeed this access, by humans quickly and simply for their own reading and understanding, is what is needed by all and all this is needed by most. Let us first grasp that, rather than trying to solve all the problems at once. -- Professor Andrew A Adams

[GOAL] Re: Meaning of Open Access

2012-05-09 Thread Andrew A. Adams
. Without access nothing else can follow. Indeed this access, by humans quickly and simply for their own reading and understanding, is what is needed by all and all this is needed by most. Let us first grasp that, rather than trying to solve all the problems at once. -- Professor Andrew A Adams

[GOAL] Re: Open data

2012-05-09 Thread Andrew A . Adams
and achievable now with little in the way of controversy about its beneficial effects on science and scholarship and then and only then dealing with the more difficult issues). -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration

[GOAL] Re: Willett's Speech in Support of OA

2012-05-03 Thread Andrew A. Adams
for Universities to come and give a talk at a UK university at which his message might be targetted to academics, instead. -- Professor Andrew A Adams aaa at meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business

[GOAL] Re: Wikipedia founder to help in [UK] government's research scheme

2012-05-02 Thread Andrew A. Adams
for it). -- Professor Andrew A Adams aaa at meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/

[GOAL] Re: Wikipedia founder to help in [UK] government's research scheme

2012-05-02 Thread Andrew A . Adams
for it). -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info

[GOAL] Re: Open Access Priorities: Peer Access and Public Access

2012-04-30 Thread Andrew A. Adams
they do exist, the idea that one should have to visit a specific physical location in order to access electronic information is a ridiculous anti-feature. -- Professor Andrew A Adams aaa at meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy

[GOAL] Re: Open Access Priorities: Peer Access and Public Access

2012-04-30 Thread Andrew A . Adams
they do exist, the idea that one should have to visit a specific physical location in order to access electronic information is a ridiculous anti-feature. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy

[GOAL] Re: Open Access Priorities: Peer Access and Public Access

2012-04-29 Thread Andrew A. Adams
. -- Professor Andrew A Adams aaa at meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/

[GOAL] Re: Open Access Priorities: Peer Access and Public Access

2012-04-29 Thread Andrew A . Adams
. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/ ___ GOAL

[GOAL] Re: Tireless Ad Hoc Critiques of OA Study After OA Study: Will Wishful Thinking Ever Cease?

2012-03-23 Thread Andrew A. Adams
that are available without cost to any and all potential citers are more often cited than those for whom potential citers are limited to those in institutions with subscription access to that article or those persuaded sight unseen to pay for access to that specific article. -- Professor Andrew A Adams

[GOAL] Re: RCUK Open Access Feedback

2012-03-18 Thread Andrew A. Adams
makes an audio book it must be available for free. However, copies of a CC-NC book can be distributed to students who are paying for a course in English literature as one of the books studied. -- Professor Andrew A Adams aaa at meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School

[GOAL] Re: Author's refereed, revised, accepted final draft vs. publisher's version-of-record

2012-02-17 Thread Andrew A. Adams
in a win-win-win from universal OA, is the way to avoid yet more lost years or even lost decades, byt moving towards adoption of the optimal mandate solution described above. -- Professor Andrew A Adams aaa at meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration

[GOAL] Re: Author's refereed, revised, accepted final draft vs. publisher's version-of-record

2012-02-17 Thread Andrew A . Adams
. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info

[GOAL] Re: Author's refereed, revised, accepted final draft vs. publisher's version-of-record

2012-02-15 Thread Andrew A . Adams
the copyright transfer agreements are strengthened. [snip] You make a quantitative claim here. Do you have any evidence you can offer for this? [further snippage] -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration

[GOAL] Re: MIT Press does not support Research Works Act

2012-01-12 Thread Andrew A . Adams
diametrically opposed a fashion to parts of their interests (though I understand that such organisations have multiple facets and why MIT Press feels unable to drop its membership over this particular individual issue). -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate

Re: Is a Different OA Strategy Needed for Social Sciences and Humanities? (No)

2011-11-07 Thread Andrew A . Adams
missing is the access and that is within our grasp if we as a community would stop worrying about all these mythical problems and deposit. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre

Re: Is a Different OA Strategy Needed for Social Sciences and Humanities? (No)

2011-11-07 Thread Andrew A . Adams
missing is the access and that is within our grasp if we as a community would stop worrying about all these mythical problems and deposit. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre

Re: The affordability problem vs. the accessibility problem

2011-11-05 Thread Andrew A . Adams
. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/

Re: The affordability problem vs. the accessibility problem

2011-11-04 Thread Andrew A . Adams
Access version or an emailed eprint). -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/

FWD: ACM Announces Innovative Article Linking Service for Authors

2011-10-13 Thread Andrew A . Adams
about it at dl-feedb...@acm.org. Regards, John R. White Executive Director/CEO Association for Computing Machinery --- End of Forwarded Message -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Chair, ACM SIGCAS http://www.sigcas.org/ (Special Interest Group on Computers

UK Guardian and Monbiot on Publishers' Contributions and profits

2011-08-30 Thread Andrew A . Adams
of findings by a year or more... -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/

Hacktivist Charged with criminal offences for downloading JSTOR

2011-07-22 Thread Andrew A . Adams
the lines of the URLs to access them - sorry.) -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/

Re: Rights Reductio Ad Absurdum

2011-01-10 Thread Andrew A . Adams
in the first place, when one's expectation is that the other party is blissfully unaware of the changes made. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji

Re: Rights Reductio Ad Absurdum

2011-01-08 Thread Andrew A . Adams
. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/

Re: Rights Reductio Ad Absurdum

2011-01-07 Thread Andrew A . Adams
and HE Physicists have been making their papers available for over twenty years without any significant problems. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics

Re: Rights Reductio Ad Absurdum

2011-01-07 Thread Andrew A . Adams
the polite version). -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/

Organisation of Repository Managers?

2010-11-30 Thread Andrew A . Adams
, but that doesn't mean there isn't, since I'm not actively involved in running a repository, merely evangelising about IRs and mandates. Does anyone know of similar organisations elsewhere that I can point the Japanese DRF people at? -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor

Re: An Overview of Open Access for Open Access Week 2010

2010-10-22 Thread Andrew A . Adams
the university management to adopt a near-optimal mandate. These events are: DRF 7th Workshop 25th November 2010 Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama SPARC Japan/JANUL joint symposium 10th December 2010 University of Tokyo -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate

Re: Role of arXiv

2010-10-08 Thread Andrew A . Adams
repositories in an encrypted element within the IR, and for a check-box during the deposit process to do a push from the IR to the central archive. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre

Re: JAIRO (Japanese Institutional Repositories Online)

2010-09-20 Thread Andrew A . Adams
afford full tollgate access to these journals matter as readers, then that is an important point for me to address in my talk at Hokkaido. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre

Re: JAIRO (Japanese Institutional Repositories Online)

2010-09-18 Thread Andrew A . Adams
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Andrew A. Adams wrote: AAA: During Open Access Week in October both Otaru University of Commerce and Hokkaido University will be holding meetings to promote deposit and adoption of a mandate. I have accepted invitations to speak at both events, arranged by Shigeki

Re: JAIRO (Japanese Institutional Repositories Online)

2010-09-17 Thread Andrew A . Adams
an access problem itself, whereas Hokkaido is one of the top ten universities in Japan and provides full funding of toll-gate access fees for its staff, who nevertheless lose impact for their publications when they are not deposited, unless published in an OA journal), -- Professor Andrew

Mandates: Philosophical Questions

2010-08-31 Thread Andrew A . Adams
with the necessity of transmitting the results already done. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/

Re: Against Promoting Pre-Emptive Gold OA Payment Before Mandating Green OA Provision

2010-08-24 Thread Andrew A . Adams
of these deals on AO fora provides that opportunity. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a

Re: Incentives for encouraging staff to self-archive

2010-08-19 Thread Andrew A . Adams
just a single extra key-stroke to deposit the full text, that's not always true if one wants to have the exact words as published, and not just the pre-copy-edited version. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration

FWD: Please share your opinion on open access publishing

2010-05-13 Thread Andrew A . Adams
The EU-funded SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing) project sent me a request to take part in a questionnaire. Despite my misgivings of such a project including as one of the partners such a self-interested party as one of the world's largest academic publishers (foxes and hen-houses come to

Re: Is the request copy button good for OA?

2010-02-05 Thread Andrew A . Adams
on a transfer of copyright instead of a license to publish. -- Dr Andrew A Adams, School of Systems Engineering The University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AY, UK Tel:44-118-378-6997 E-mail:a.a.ad...@rdg.ac.uk http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~sis00aaa/ From 1st April 2010: Professor, Graduate School of Business

Re: Is the request copy button good for OA? (3)

2010-02-04 Thread Andrew A . Adams
the purpose of the button is, and to not allow depositors to place a barrier to access where one is not necessary. -- Dr Andrew A Adams, School of Systems Engineering The University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AY, UK Tel:44-118-378-6997 E-mail:a.a.ad...@rdg.ac.uk http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~sis00aaa/ From 1st

oderation and Censorship

2008-10-03 Thread Andrew A . Adams
of the list and the movement but allowed those postings through while posting his disagreement openly. Keeping off-topic and insulting material off the list is exactly what the job as moderator entails and he retains my confidence. -- Dr Andrew A Adams, School of Systems Engineering The University

Two articles in the 29th May/5th June issues of THE of OA interest

2008-06-05 Thread Andrew A . Adams
. These cost shifts would happen because it is not in the interests of academia to allow high quality journals to close down. Altbach's flawed argument in opposition to Open Access is a disgrace to his position as a professor of higher education. -- Dr Andrew A Adams, School of Systems Engineering

Re: The cost of peer review and electronic distribution of scholarly journals

2008-05-23 Thread Andrew A . Adams
in dealing with change all of which is exacerbated by publisher FUD. -- Dr Andrew A Adams, School of Systems Engineering The University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AY, UK Tel:44-118-378-6997 E-mail:a.a.ad...@rdg.ac.uk http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~sis00aaa/

Re: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM Digest - 3 Dec 2007 to 5 Dec 2007 (#2007-243)

2007-12-06 Thread Andrew A . Adams
, and that the librarians' principle role is physical curation of stock (which is part of a librarian's role but not the whole of it and certainly not the most important part). -- *E-mail*a.a.ad...@rdg.ac.uk Dr Andrew A Adams **snail*27 Westerham Walk** School of Systems Engineering