Re: [GOAL] OA Overview January 2017

2017-01-11 Thread Arthur Sale
and more flexible. I think the same is true of Canada. Best wishes Arthur Sale From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: Wednesday, 11 January 2017 06:05 AM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Cc: scholc

[GOAL] Review of Australian Copyright Law

2016-01-06 Thread Arthur Sale
have-your-say/updating-australias-copyrig ht-laws?utm_content=buffer35444_medium=social_source=twitter.com _campaign=buffer> _medium=social_source=twitter.com_campaign=buffer Arthur ------ Arthur Sale PhD Emeritus Professor of

[GOAL] Re: Quo vadere?

2016-01-05 Thread Arthur Sale
een tested -- not by U Tasmania and not by CalTech! Stevan On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 10:00 PM, Roth, Dana L. <dzr...@caltech.edu> wrote: I fully agree with Arthur Sale. We initiated a 'photocopy request' service over 40 years ago, and quickly found that researchers primarily wante

[GOAL] Re: Quo vadere?

2016-01-04 Thread Arthur Sale
to mine the data, contact the University Librarian. Arthur Sale University of Tasmania, Australia From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: Tuesday, 5 January 2016 02:24 AM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL

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

2014-09-24 Thread Arthur Sale
are happy to maintain the accuracy of their publications, but they would not wish to support this with cash for legal fees. Arthur Sale From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Heather Morrison Sent: Wednesday, 24 September, 2014 6:39 To: Global Open Access

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

2013-11-26 Thread Arthur Sale
a competent computer scientist can solve. All this is more important if the OA version is not a pdf, as it could be and sometimes is (HTML, XML, etc). The Australian research councils agree with me. Arthur Sale -Original Message- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org

[GOAL] Re: [Open-access] Re: Re: Fight Publishing Lobby's Latest FIRST Act to Delay OA - Nth Successor to PRISM, RWA etc.

2013-11-22 Thread Arthur Sale
of Conduct. Many researchers (not authors) see open data repositories as a simple way of complying with the requirements imposed on them thereby. The ones with huge datasets (and their own repositories) are generally even more amenable to open access to their data. Best wishes Arthur Sale Emeritus

[GOAL] Re: [Open-access] Re: Re: Fight Publishing Lobby's Latest FIRST Act to Delay OA - Nth Successor to PRISM, RWA etc.

2013-11-21 Thread Arthur Sale
Stevan There is no need to wait and indeed we are not. The scholarly community is completely capable of acting on both text and data at the same time, and indeed has been for at least five years. This is to be praised not denigrated. Open access data is within our easy reach, because

[GOAL] Open Access in Australian Quarterly

2013-10-25 Thread Arthur Sale
in Australia. It is not connected with any political party or sectional group. Opinions expressed in AQ are those of the authors. The lead article (featured on the cover) is Revolution in the Wings - Recent Developments in Open Access by myself, pp 3-11. Arthur Sale

[GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits

2013-10-06 Thread Arthur Sale
, but more of authors seeking value for money in journal dissemination. But, of course, we aren’t there yet. I decline to extend this discussion to objective measures of journal quality such as JIF, SJR, SNIP or Eigenvector. Best wishes Arthur Sale University of Tasmania From: goal-boun

[GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits

2013-10-05 Thread Arthur Sale
are non-beneficiaries, or only at second remove. Arthur Sale University of Tasmania From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Sally Morris Sent: Sunday, 6 October 2013 5:12 AM To: 'Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)' Subject: [GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs

[GOAL] Re: Disruption vs. Protection

2013-09-17 Thread Arthur Sale
2:25 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Disruption vs. Protection On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Arthur Sale a...@ozemail.com.au wrote: At a severe risk of offending Stevan, I write to say that my University has practised an almost-OA policy

[GOAL] Re: Open access research: some basics for scientists

2013-09-17 Thread Arthur Sale
is an essential in the human ethics style of research, as are other branches of mathematics. Arthur Sale Computer scientist, electronics engineer, bioinformatician, and OA advocate -Original Message- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of BAUIN Serge Sent

[GOAL] Re: Open access research: some basics for scientists

2013-09-16 Thread Arthur Sale
engineers would also have a better grasp of using complex mathematical tools such as chaos theory, fractals, and fourier analysis. It isn't black vs white. Arthur Sale University of Tasmania -Original Message- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Heather

[GOAL] Re: [sparc-oaforum] Re: Disruption vs. Protection

2013-09-16 Thread Arthur Sale
to unsubscribe little used journals and win, and it makes it easier to be right up to date at the far end of the world's communication lines. Arthur Sale University of Tasmania. Australia From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Rick Anderson Sent: Tuesday

[GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] 1st-Party Give-Aways vs. 3rd-Party Rip-Offs

2013-08-08 Thread Arthur Sale
status is hardly dubious. 'Personal use' is irrelevant, whatever it is. Research is not 'personal', or at least only in minimal senses. Arthur Sale Tasmania -Original Message- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of P Burnhill Sent: Thursday, 8 August

[GOAL] Re: Hybrid OA/subscription journals

2013-07-05 Thread Arthur Sale
My thanks Jan, for such a succinct and accurate analysis. I am heartened to know that others think the article has priority over its packaging. I also want to disseminate these concepts more widely in my institution. Best wishes Arthur Sale From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun

[GOAL] Paper at Theta 2013

2013-04-17 Thread Arthur Sale
/. Of course there were even more developments since I wrote the paper, which I managed to work into the presentation. Arthur Sale University of Tasmania, Australia ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo

[GOAL] Universities Australia OA timetable

2013-04-17 Thread Arthur Sale
by 2017. 5. The universities can then press even harder for an efficiency dividend, with the Australian Government simply harvesting data from the repositories for both HERDC (data collection) and ERA (research evaluation), and relieving themselves of unnecessary work. Arthur Sale

[GOAL] Re: Harnad Comments on Proposed HEFCE/REF Green Open Access Mandate

2013-03-21 Thread Arthur Sale
benefit of guaranteeing long-term access to that work. After all, that is what libraries have been doing for hundreds of years with paper. -- All the best, Tim. On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 08:54 +1100, Arthur Sale wrote: Thanks Tim. No I don't think I missed the point. I agree

[GOAL] Re: Harnad Comments on Proposed HEFCE/REF Green Open Access Mandate

2013-03-21 Thread Arthur Sale
Arthur Sale From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: Friday, 22 March 2013 1:55 AM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Cc: LibLicense-L Discussion Forum Subject: [GOAL] Re: Harnad Comments on Proposed HEFCE/REF Green Open

[GOAL] Re: Harnad Comments on Proposed HEFCE/REF Green Open Access Mandate

2013-03-19 Thread Arthur Sale
though repository software may not be able to access it. (Drawn to my attention by private correspondence from Petr Knoth.) Arthur Sale -Original Message- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Tim Brody Sent: Tuesday, 19 March 2013 9:19 PM To: Global

[GOAL] Re: Harnad Comments on Proposed HEFCE/REF Green Open Access Mandate

2013-03-16 Thread Arthur Sale
The Australian situation is interspersed - nothing to do with REF and HEFCE, but our equivalent research evaluation process. I provide this for comparison. Arthur Sale University of Tasmania, Australia From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf

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

2013-02-24 Thread Arthur Sale
for specialized repositories. Arthur Sale -Original Message- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Andrew A. Adams Sent: Monday, 25 February 2013 11:24 AM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: US Presidential Open Access

[GOAL] Re: question about co-authors and self archiving

2013-02-05 Thread Arthur Sale
, but it is shrinking. Think also of the 100+ co-authors of some publications. The legal situation would probably be described as that 'all authors must agree since they hold the copyright jointly'. Arthur Sale Tasmania, Australia From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf

[GOAL] Re: Is $99 per article realistic and compatible with profits - or too high a price?

2013-01-28 Thread Arthur Sale
, such as images, charts, tables, etc, and the whole field of data mining. If one puts together various studies can one come up with something bigger and new? For example a longitudinal study of tooth decay rates over centuries? Arthur Sale -Original Message- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org

[GOAL] Re: Please distinguish what is and is not relevant to mandating Green OA self-archiving

2013-01-20 Thread Arthur Sale
though it is. Of course, to forestall comment by someone who wants to carp, the lifetime of research outputs does vary. In some disciplines it is of the order of a year or two on average, in others perhaps of centuries, to use the extremes. Arthur Sale Tasmania, Australia -Original Message

[GOAL] Re: Statement: Australian Open Access Support Group applauds new ARC open access policy

2013-01-18 Thread Arthur Sale
. I could have made up a much longer list of objects which are research outputs, including databases and datasets, plant patents, etc. I fully expect that the ARC guidelines will spell out what research outputs they specifically intend. I hope that this explanation has helped. Arthur Sale

[GOAL] Re: Statement: Australian Open Access Support Group applauds new ARC open access policy

2013-01-17 Thread Arthur Sale
the date of publication. Discoverability of the full-text of the publication through Google Scholar is regarded as proof of meeting this requirement. Arthur Sale University of Tasmania From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Danny Kingsley Sent: Monday, 14

[GOAL] Re: Searching for OA vs. Providing OA

2013-01-05 Thread Arthur Sale
, and they will have a synergistic effect on each other. Lack of synergy holds back open access. But enough of that. I just wanted to explain what was happening with Google Scholar. Arthur Sale Tasmania, Australia From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Sally Morris Sent

[GOAL] The Australian Research Council's New Leader Opens Up

2012-10-03 Thread Arthur Sale
Readers of this list will be interested in the views of the Australian Research Council's CEO. He deserves the full support of this list to rationalize the policies of the two Australian research councils The twelve-month embargo is a bit long, but we can live with that. Arthur Sale

[GOAL] Of some interest perhaps

2012-09-08 Thread Arthur Sale
and the history of the Quakers in Tasmania. All historical as mentioned, but part of the open access world. Let's not lose sight of digitizing our heritage while we pursue open access for current research and data. Arthur Sale Tasmania, Australia ___ GOAL

[GOAL] Publisher statement

2012-09-07 Thread Arthur Sale
://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/247.htm. Arthur Sale ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] Re: Publications managed by scholarly communities/institutions

2012-08-09 Thread Arthur Sale
. Arthur Sale From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Sally Morris Sent: Thursday, 9 August 2012 8:50 PM To: 'Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)' Subject: [GOAL] Re: Publications managed byscholarly communities/institutions These are all examples

[GOAL] Re: Planning for the Open Access Era

2012-08-07 Thread Arthur Sale
may still have the sense and integrity to fix its policy and do just that. Stevan On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Arthur Sale a...@ozemail.com.au wrote: I completely follow your argument Stevan, and agree with it, as far as it goes. There is however an aspect that you have not covered

[GOAL] Re: Planning for the Open Access Era

2012-08-06 Thread Arthur Sale
on the universities being economical, because it would not be core business, though prestigious. Arthur Sale Tasmania, Australia ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] The Australian scene re Finch and OA

2012-06-24 Thread Arthur Sale
appears to be. There is no stomach to use our research funds to support the publishing industry through a transition. We will follow whatever happens... Arthur Sale Emeritus Professor of Computer Science University of Tasmania ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL

[GOAL] Re: OA and scholarly publishers

2012-05-12 Thread Arthur Sale
obsolete copyright legislation.   Arthur Sale Tasmania, Australia   From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Peter Murray-Rust Sent: Saturday, 12 May 2012 8:47 AM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: OA and scholarly

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

2012-04-30 Thread Arthur Sale
to provide public access and acquittal of publicly funded research. Peer-reviewing does not alone provide sufficient transparency - for example, it may not expose plagiarism or fraud. Best wishes Arthur Sale -Original Message- From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun

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

2012-04-30 Thread Arthur Sale
be available to all who want to see it. Researchers and exploiters are just special subsets of the public. Arthur Sale Tasmania, Australia -Original Message- From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Dana Roth Sent: Monday, 30 April 2012 8:33 AM

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

2012-04-30 Thread Arthur Sale
to provide public access and acquittal of publicly funded research. Peer-reviewing does not alone provide sufficient transparency - for example, it may not expose plagiarism or fraud. Best wishes Arthur Sale -Original Message- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org

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

2012-04-30 Thread Arthur Sale
be available to all who want to see it. Researchers and exploiters are just special subsets of the public. Arthur Sale Tasmania, Australia -Original Message- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Dana Roth Sent: Monday, 30 April 2012 8:33 AM

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

2012-04-29 Thread Arthur Sale
-reviewed research reports themselves are neither understandable nor of direct interest to the general public as reading matter.   9. Hence, for most research, public access to publicly funded research, is not reason enough for providing OA, nor for mandating that OA be provided.”     Arthur Sale

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

2012-04-28 Thread Arthur Sale
. We should not allow unaware people such simple outs. Arthur Sale Tasmania, Australia -Original Message- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: Saturday, 28 April 2012 8:48 AM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Cc

[GOAL] Re: Libre open access, copyright, patent law, and other intellectual property matters

2012-03-26 Thread Arthur Sale
Yes Sally, that is the rationale that I would use were I in that situation. It is analogous to a newspaper cutting service, or to writing a commissioned report which cites freely available articles as well as ones behind a toll barrier. The user is paying for my work in compilation. Arthur

[GOAL] Strategies for OA

2012-02-18 Thread Arthur Sale
, the atomic theory, genetics and plate tectonics, we ignore the facts of scientific/scholarly revolutions at our own risk. Arthur Sale Emeritus Professor of Computer Science University of Tasmania -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http

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

2012-02-17 Thread Arthur Sale
Andrew Sorry for the mistake about your name and thank you for the tolerance. I think that you have a rosy idea of what private enterprise researchers actually do. In many cases their attention span is under a second (well say five seconds). They have real work to do. But please DO NOT suggest

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

2012-02-16 Thread Arthur Sale
) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Author's refereed, revised, accepted final draft vs. publisher's version-of-record In response to Stevan Harnad, Arthur Sale wrote: When we turn to the researcher, the situation changes significantly, if slightly. Researchers regard the VoR as the canonic version

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

2012-02-16 Thread Arthur Sale
) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Author's refereed, revised, accepted final draft vs. publisher's version-of-record In response to Stevan Harnad, Arthur Sale wrote: When we turn to the researcher, the situation changes significantly, if slightly. Researchers regard the VoR as the canonic version

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

2012-02-15 Thread Arthur Sale
all revolution, it is the people involved that matter. Arthur Sale University of Tasmania -Original Message- From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: Tuesday, 14 February 2012 5:36 PM To: LibLicense-L Discussion Forum Cc

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

2012-02-15 Thread Arthur Sale
in process, and like all revolution, it is the people involved that matter.   Arthur Sale University of Tasmania   -Original Message- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: Tuesday, 14 February 2012 5:36 PM To: LibLicense-L

[GOAL] Re: Research Works Act AAP Members

2012-01-19 Thread Arthur Sale
Stevan This approach does not work. Please see interspersed. I think we need more sophisticated and nuanced comments. Best wishes Arthur Sale Tasmania, Australia -Original Message- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent

[GOAL] Re: Research Works Act AAP Members

2012-01-19 Thread Arthur Sale
Stevan This approach does not work. Please see interspersed. I think we need more sophisticated and nuanced comments. Best wishes Arthur Sale Tasmania, Australia -Original Message- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent

[GOAL] Research Works Act, HR3699

2012-01-13 Thread Arthur Sale
or transcription of the work http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/s189.html#work . None of this describes copy-editing! Arthur Sale Tasmania, Australia -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk

[GOAL] Research Works Act, HR3699

2012-01-13 Thread Arthur Sale
; or (ii)            a version of the work in which a story or action is conveyed solely or principally by means of pictures; and (d)   in relation to a musical work--an arrangement or transcription of the work.   None of this describes copy-editing!     Arthur Sale Tasmania

[GOAL] Counting researchers - some results

2012-01-09 Thread Arthur Sale
simply be focussed solely on different article counts and think of this as a waste of effort. No matter – it seems that social networking tools are proving useful in achieving OA.   Arthur Sale University of Tasmania, Australia   [ Part 1.2, Image/PNG (Name: image001.png) 189

[GOAL] Re: How many researchers are there?

2012-01-04 Thread Arthur Sale
something when I have more to write and a better estimate than 1M N 10M. Best wishes Arthur Sale University of Tasmania, Australia -Original Message- From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Odlyzko Sent: Wednesday, 4 January 2012 12

[GOAL] Re: How many researchers are there?

2012-01-04 Thread Arthur Sale
post something when I have more to write and a better estimate than 1M N 10M.   Best wishes   Arthur Sale University of Tasmania, Australia   -Original Message- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Odlyzko Sent: Wednesday, 4 January

[GOAL] Re: How many researchers are there?

2012-01-03 Thread Arthur Sale
exactly how many articles were written or published.  As an engineer in a previous career, absolute precision in these matters is not required, rather sufficient confidence that we are in the right ballpark. Anyway, thank you very much for your help and links, which I greatly appreciate.   Arthur Sale

[GOAL] Re: How many researchers are there?

2012-01-02 Thread Arthur Sale
, if the margin of error for the total is 1M - 10M then the margin of error for the percentage OA would be 10% - 100%, which is too big. Using known, published papers as the estimator also eliminates the multi-author problem.)   Cheers, Stevan   On 2011-12-31, at 6:25 PM, Arthur Sale wrote: I am

[GOAL] Re: Scope of the GOAL list and discussions on open access

2012-01-01 Thread Arthur Sale
Heather, my comments are interspersed on two paragraphs of your recent post. Happy New Year. Arthur Sale University of Tasmania, Australia ... [Heather] Libraries. Currently, library subscriptions account for about 80-90% of the financial support for the scholarly publishing system, with 68-73

[GOAL] Re: The Titanium Road response

2011-12-24 Thread Arthur Sale
Father Christmas, what I would like for 2012 is 100% OA to be adopted as policy by all researchers. Best wishes to the list for the holiday season. Arthur Sale From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: Saturday, 24 December 2011 1:04

[GOAL] Re: Titanium Killer Apps and OA

2011-12-23 Thread Arthur Sale
features and human needs underlying them.   Arthur Sale University of Tasmania, Australia   PS, since I did not see Stevan’s reply to me except by looking at the archive, please see the original of this thread if you want to read it. It is rather long.   [ Part 2: Attached Text

[GOAL] The Titanium Road response

2011-12-23 Thread Arthur Sale
to reconstruct a reply email from the archive. I have done my best.   On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Arthur Sale ahjs at ozemail.com.au wrote:   ***   ** The more important issue is that I have failed to get across to him that the Titanium Road has nothing to do with researcher voluntarism

[GOAL] Re: Bold predictions for 2012

2011-12-20 Thread Arthur Sale
.   Arthur Sale University of Tasmania http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=oNF2d24Jhl=en         From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: Monday, 19 December 2011 1:10 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci

[GOAL] Bold predictions for 2012

2011-12-19 Thread Arthur Sale
dominate this list, so I’ve been brief to the point of encryption. I am happy to expand on any of the previous four paragraphs, recognising that some of them are separable issues. I hope I have been controversial enough to get some responses.   Arthur Sale University of Tasmania, Australia Â

Re: Automating metadata extraction

2011-12-16 Thread Arthur Sale
subversive activities in the future!   Arthur Sale Emeritus Professor of Computer Science University of Tasmania, Australia   -Original Message- From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of William Gunn Sent: Friday, 16 December 2011 10:18

Re: Organisation of Repository Managers?

2010-11-30 Thread Arthur Sale
/institutionalrepositoriescommunity-anz?hl=en.   Arthur Sale   -Original Message- From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Andrew A. Adams Sent: Tuesday, 30 November 2010 11:42 AM To: american-scientist-open-access-fo

Australian Lists of Journals and Conferences

2010-03-31 Thread Arthur Sale
I have been waiting for the Australian Government to post to these lists, but they haven’t.   So let me advise you that the Australian Research Council (ARC) has published its definitive lists of ranked journals used by Australians, and ranked conferences in selected disciplines. I emphasize

Unethical harvesters

2009-10-28 Thread Arthur Sale
from the ARO gateway database. 4.   If ARO does not comply, Australian repositories will need to consider boycotting the service.   Arthur Sale Emeritus Professor of Computer Science University of Tasmania      

Re: Authors Re-using Their Own Work

2009-08-04 Thread Arthur Sale
permission for you to send stuff electronically to requestors;  or not to assign copyright at all to the publisher.   Charles   On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 11:15:16 +1000   Arthur Sale a...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Charles   The Australian Act makes no mention of who does the reproduction. Whether I make

Re: Authors Re-using Their Own Work

2009-08-01 Thread Arthur Sale
the Australian Act does not allow the copyright owner to object to fair dealing of a journal  article on the grounds that it might affect the potential market. The Request-a-copy button rests on firm legal ground in the Antipodes.   Arthur Sale University of Tasmania COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 40 Fair

Re: The Accelerating Worldwide Adoption Rate for Green Open Access Self-Archiving Mandates

2009-05-27 Thread Arthur Sale
of research is not in seeing how full the repositories actually are, but having an independent measure of what the actual body of work produced was and so what is missing. Fortunately in Australia, we have this latter data in a public summary form.   Arthur Sale University of Tasmania     From

Re: The Accelerating Worldwide Adoption Rate for Green Open Access Self-Archiving Mandates

2009-05-27 Thread Arthur Sale
-Archiving Mandates are not only self-chosen by the researchers themselves, but they are department/faculty/school mandates, rather than full university-wide mandates. These are the patchwork mandates that Arthur Sale already began recommending presciently back in 2007, in preference to waiting passively

AuseSearch

2009-03-06 Thread Arthur Sale
repositories and mandates to deposit in them are so important. How about similar facilities for the USA, Canada, Germany, or whatever? I'm happy to help or even set them up. We could have a directory of country-based search engines for those that want to drill down into a country issue!   Arthur Sale

ERA Timeframe, submissions commence June (PCE) and August (HCA)

2009-02-25 Thread Arthur Sale
and because the SJR seems to be a better measure of the scientific value of a paper than raw cite counts.   Arthur Sale Emeritus Professor of Computer Science University of Tasmania   PS Roughly PCE = Physical, Chemical Earth Sciences Cluster; HCA = Humanities and Creative Arts Cluster

FW: [IRCommunity-ANZ] FW: ARC media release - Scopus to provide citation information for ERA

2009-02-20 Thread Arthur Sale
For the information of list readers. The Australian Cluster One is Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences, which will be evaluated by metrics and expert advice (no peer review of research outputs).   Arthur Sale University of Tasmania   From: institutionalrepositoriescommunity

Re: Fair-Use/Schmair-Use...

2009-02-18 Thread Arthur Sale
extends to 249 major sections I do not propose to go into detail.   Best wishes Arthur Sale   COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 31 Nature of copyright in original works (1)  For the purposes of this Act, unless the contrary intention appears, copyright, in relation to a work

Re: Fair-Use/Schmair-Use...

2009-02-17 Thread Arthur Sale
has gone a long way to handle these problems. I would be very surprised if it were unique.   Arthur Sale   From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of c.oppenh...@lboro.ac.uk Sent: Monday, 16 February 2009 9:24 PM

Re: The German problem with OA

2009-02-15 Thread Arthur Sale
Klaus I take it then that we agree at least that the German problem (if it exists) is confined solely to Germany? That seems to be a logical consequence. Arthur Sale -Original Message- From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo

Re: Fair-Use/Schmair-Use...

2009-02-15 Thread Arthur Sale
that more  angels can dance on the head of a pin than is commonly thought of. We need to do what is sensible and wait for the law to catch up, as it will eventually.   Arthur Sale COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 200AB Use of works and other subject-matter for certain purposes (1)  The copyright

The German problem with OA

2009-02-14 Thread Arthur Sale
at lowest possible cost to any German citizen? I'd be really interested to read the response.   Best wishes from Arthur Sale University of Tasmania     -Original Message- From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org

RE: [AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM] Repositories: Institutional or Central ? [in French, from Rector's blog, U. Li�ge]

2009-02-06 Thread Arthur Sale
-granters have total responsibility for directing them. Researchers are not free agents. (There are exceptions for unemployed free-lance researchers of course, but they are a small fraction of the world's research authors.) Arthur Sale University of Tasmania -Original Message- From

RE: [AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM] Fwd: Repositories: Institutional or Central ? [in French, from Rector's blog, U. Li�ge]

2009-02-06 Thread Arthur Sale
data) - well say 80%. Arguing for 10-15% is a defeatist attitude. 3.  Your third argument is true but silly. It simply does not make sense. IRs are primary as they link to researcher output, CRs and publishers are secondary.   Arthur Sale University of Tasmania   -Original Message

RE: [AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM] [AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM] Repositories: Institutional or Central ? [in French, from Rector's blog, U. Li�

2009-02-06 Thread Arthur Sale
to contribute to their discipline and access to knowledge (and opinion). Otherwise why are they employed?   Arthur Sale University of Tasmania   -Original Message- From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Thomas

Re: STM Publisher Briefing on Institution Repository Deposit Mandates

2009-01-22 Thread Arthur Sale
From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Arthur Sale Sent: 20 January 2009 21:29 To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org

Re: STM Publisher Briefing on Institution Repository Deposit Mandates

2009-01-21 Thread Arthur Sale
.   Arthur Sale   From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Sally Morris (Morris Associates) Sent: Tuesday, 20 January 2009 9:53 PM To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re: [AMERICAN

Re: Please Don't Conflate Green and Gold OA

2008-11-22 Thread Arthur Sale
the University and the email address on record might be defunct. · Fourthly, the author may still be ignorant or worried about their rights under Australian copyright law (unfounded, but real).   Arthur Sale University of Tasmania   -Original Message- From: American Scientist Open

Re: Please Don't Conflate Green and Gold OA

2008-11-22 Thread Arthur Sale
. Arthur Sale University of Tasmania -Original Message- From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Klaus Graf Sent: Saturday, 22 November 2008 2:05 PM To: american-scientist-open-access-fo

Withdrawal from Open Access

2008-10-28 Thread Arthur Sale
to understand these counter-intuitive actions. There may be lessons to be learnt.   Arthur Sale University of Tasmania

Re: FW: Liblicense-l: rules of the road

2008-10-24 Thread Arthur Sale
Dear moderator Can we please regard this subject as closed? I don't want to waste my time on any more of this. I note that Sally's posting violates even Rule 3 she quotes. As far as I am concerned it is all noise and no signal. Arthur -Original Message- From: American Scientist Open

Re: Brisbane declaration on Open Access (fwd)

2008-10-10 Thread Arthur Sale
widely understood than Version of Record. Sorry. However, I am doing my bit to spread awareness of the NISO terminology.   Arthur Sale University of Tasmania   From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Sally Morris

Re: Brisbane declaration on Open Access (fwd)

2008-10-09 Thread Arthur Sale
Australia stands at a cusp..   What are the chances of a matching declaration in other countries?   Arthur Sale University of Tasmania     ==   Following the conference on Open Access and Research held in September in Australia

Re: Zurich Open Access: Still disappointing

2008-09-07 Thread Arthur Sale
is at the discretion of the author. Arthur Sale -Original Message- From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Klaus Graf Sent: Sunday, 7 September 2008 12:12 PM To: american-scientist-open-access-fo

Re: Harnad's faulty thinking on OA deposit and APA policy

2008-07-24 Thread Arthur Sale
extra work for everyone, and conflicts of interest.   Arthur Sale University of Tasmania   From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: Thursday, 24 July 2008 2:58 AM To: american-scientist-open

Re: Central versus institutional self-archiving

2008-03-09 Thread Arthur Sale
not provide a scalable model for open access. Only IRs do.   Arthur Sale University of Tasmania     From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Atanu Garai/Lists Sent: Sunday, 9 March 2008 3:51 AM To: american-scientist

Re: How to Compare IRs and CRs

2008-02-18 Thread Arthur Sale
could agree with you that filling discipline-specific repositories and covering all disciplines and inter-disciplinary fields will be a very long process, if that will help. Arthur Sale Professor of Computer Science University of Tasmania -Original Message- From: American Scientist Open

Re: New Ranking of Central and Institutional Repositories

2008-02-14 Thread Arthur Sale
, On Feb 12, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Arthur Sale wrote: This brings me to the second point: Repositories were not set up to provide linkage, and if they were to be in the deep web apart from being harvestable, their utility would be only slightly weakened. Indeed this is exactly the situation

Re: New Ranking of Central and Institutional Repositories

2008-02-13 Thread Arthur Sale
, but most university repositories are simply in the deep web, accessed only by the federated harvester. This is the Australasian Digital Theses Program, also listed in the Webometrics top 200. I haven't heard 30+ universities complaining about the loss of links. Arthur Sale Professor of Computer Science

Re: New Ranking of Central and Institutional Repositories

2008-02-12 Thread Arthur Sale
instructions on how to ask for access to the item concerned, or a bio of the creator of an artwork. DOWNLOADS I'd love to promote downloads as a measure of impact, but there is as yet no federated way to access this data. I'm happy to continue this dialogue. Arthur Sale Professor of Computer Science

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