Re: [GOAL] Fwd: ACS and Elsevier file lawsuit against ResearchGate

Now imagine if, instead of trying to sue one 3rd-party publication recycler, Elsevier and ACS had had to try to sue every one of the universities of every one if its authors on the planet... Just sayin'... Bored Erstwhile Archivangelist On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 1:58 AM Richard Poynder wrote: >

[GOAL] Open Access: "Plan S" Needs to Drop "Option B"

To combine Peter Suber's post with George Monbiot 's: The only true cost (and service) provided by peer-reviewed

[GOAL] Selfie-evident nonsense about copyright

Regardless of what one feels about photo copyright or about (nonhuman) animal (legal) personhood, the "monkey selfie " trial is absurd. The trivial counterexamples abound: 1. If a photographer sets up a camera so the sun's rays automatically trigger a

Re: [GOAL] Elsevier acquires bepress

r Gold <https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/381526/>. It's Free Gold. (But the subsidy model does not scale.) And I don't get or seek a penny. But if Elsevier should hike the rate *Animal Sentience *will migrate... Stevan Harnad Editor, Animal Sentience <http://animalstudiesrepository.org/animsent/&

Re: [GOAL] anti-Soros campaign /Re: The Budapest Open Access Initiative and Budapest 2017

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 11:29 AM, <sigmaxi.org@dfgh.net> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Stevan Harnad <amscifo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > It’s ironic that billionaire George Soros > > [...] is today being notably vilified in a hate campaign

[GOAL] The Budapest Open Access Initiative and Budapest 2017

It’s ironic that billionaire George Soros (who is less wealthy than billionaire Bill Gates but has done a lot more philanthropy, both absolutely and proportionately) is today being notably vilified in a hate campaign by Hungary’s

Re: [GOAL] Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?

8/35074210 https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v410/n6832/full/4101024a0.html Inertia indeed, on the part of the publishing industry, predictably, but on the part of the research community, deplorably… *Stevan Harnad* On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Andrew Odlyzko <odly...@umn.ed

Re: [GOAL] Fwd: [SCHOLCOMM] BLOG: 'Be nice to each other' - the second Researcher 2 Reader conference

The time to concel subscriptions is AFTER Green OA has become universal, not BEFORE, because pre-emptive cancellation just slows the progress of Green OA. While Green OA is just partial, cancellation means loss of access. And publishers try harder to embargo Green. Harnad, Stevan (2015) Open

Re: [GOAL] How much of the content in open repositories is able to meet the definition of open access?

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 4:41 AM, Richard Poynder wrote: > OA advocates maintain that the formative definition of open access agreed > at the meeting that led to the Budapest Open Access Initiative means that > only papers with a CC BY licence attached can be

Re: [GOAL] OA Overview January 2017

te.utas.edu.au/rmdb/ecite/q/ecite_about, > > > > Best wishes > > Arthur Sale > > > > *From:* Repositories discussion list [mailto:JISC-REPOSITORIES@ > JISCMAIL.AC.UK] *On Behalf Of *Stevan Harnad > *Sent:* Thursday, 12 January 2017 02:06 AM > *To:* jisc-reposito

[GOAL] Internet Archive Mirroring in Canada to Protect from Trump

We're only just beginning to see the long, dark reach of what the deplorables have wrought upon the planet... (Thank goodness the Canadian government today is Trudeau's liberals and not Harper's "conservatives.") http://thenextweb.com/politics/2016/11/30/trump-scares-internet-archive-canada/

Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] Q with CNI's Clifford Lynch: Time to re-think the institutional repository?

See reply: *Repositories vs. Quasitories, or Much Ado About Next To Nothing * On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 3:35 AM, Richard Poynder < richard.poyn...@btinternet.com> wrote: > I

Re: [GOAL] changing IR software

t they have been led to the waters of self-archiving, that they should just go ahead and drink!” [Harnad, S. (1999) Free at Last: The Future of Peer-Reviewed  <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december99/12harnad.html>Journals <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december99/12harnad.html>. D-Lib 5(12) D

[GOAL] Brexit for Institutional Repositories?

<http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1164-.html> My instinct tells me wiser (sic) heads will prevail (but I've been over-optimistic before...) *Stevan Harnad* Erstwhile Archivangelist Seconded to Higher Calling <https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201501

[GOAL] Misdiagnosis of the slow passage to the optimal and inevitable

.) But wherever researchers fail to do (1) and either (2a) or (2b), the biggest blockage to OA is indeed researcher apathy. Nothing whatsoever to do with journal choice, journal impact factors, or “mismeasurement.” Red Herrings, all. Dixit. Stevan Harnad —— Harnad, S (2015) Optimizing Open

[GOAL] Un pas de plus vers le libre accès

http://www.actualites.uqam.ca/2016/libre-acces-Europe-objectif-2020?utm_campaign=UQAMHEBDO_medium=email_source=8JUIN2016_content=libre-acces-Europe-objectif-2020 ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

Re: [GOAL] The "Ingelfinger Rule, " publisher FUD and author paranoia.

#publisher-forbids http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/self-faq/#10.Copyright *Stevan Harnad* On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Danny Kingsley <da...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > Hello all, > > Our latest blog on Unlocking Research is looking at the issue of press > embargoes. > > Below

Re: [GOAL] Prophylactic Against Elsevier Predation

ints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] *On > Behalf Of *Stevan Harnad > *Sent:* May 18, 2016 6:30 PM > *To:* Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <goal@eprints.org> > *Subject:* Re: [GOAL] Prophylactic Against Elsevier Predation > > > > And then, if Scien

Re: [GOAL] Prophylactic Against Elsevier Predation

- and access to -- universities' own research output.) Stevan Harnad On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Éric Archambault < eric.archamba...@science-metrix.com> wrote: > Eric > > > > At 1science, we have developed a robust solution to address some of the > problems you are mentioning

Re: [GOAL] Prophylactic Against Elsevier Predation

useful not just locally but globally. No fundamental obstacles here, just a little more mental interoperability called for too... Stevan http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com > Twitter: @evdvelde > E-mail: eric.f.vandeve...@gmail.com > > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:26 AM, Stevan Harna

Re: [GOAL] Re : Re: SSRN Sellout to Elsevier

netise academic IP. > > > > Best, > > > > Ross > > > > > > > > > > On 17 May 2016 at 21:22, Joachim SCHOPFEL <joachim.schop...@univ-lille3.fr> > wrote: > > Uh - "the distributed network of Green institutional repositories > w

[GOAL] Prophylactic Against Elsevier Predation

as > a foothold if it had been born digital, instead of being inherited as a > legacy from an obsolete Gutenberg era. > > > > I don't know about Arxiv (needless centralization and its concentrated > expenses are always vulnerabe to faux-benign take-overs) but what's sure is > that

Re: [GOAL] SSRN Sellout to Elsevier

institutional repositories worldwide is not for sale, and that is their strength... Stevan Harnad On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Bo-Christer Björk < bo-christer.bj...@hanken.fi> wrote: > This is an interesting news item which should interest the readers of this > list. Let'

Re: [GOAL] The Open Access Interviews: Sir Timothy Gowers, Mathematician

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 1:29 AM, Richard Poynder wrote: > As the use of green open access policies looks increasingly like a failed > strategy, and as universities, research funders, and governments in Europe > seek to engineer a mass “flipping” of subscription

[GOAL] Tribute to Timbl (Tim Berners-Lee) at WWW2016 (Montreal)

*Introducing Tim Berners-Lee * WWW2016 Keynote Speaker http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1175-.html *I.* Jim Hendler, has strictly allotted me exactly three sentences to introduce Tim Berners-Lee, and now

Re: [GOAL] [sparc-oaforum] Journal-flipping report open for public comments

This is just a reminder that the preliminary draft of "Converting Scholarly Journals to Open Access," by David Solomon, Bo-Christer Björk, and Mikael Laakso, is open for public comments. > https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/programs/journal-flipping/public-consultation/ > > For more details, see the

Re: [GOAL] [BOAI] FW: [accesouvert] Pour une science ouverte à tous

and the far more attentive and patient Hélène Bosc for pointing this out to me. Stevan Harnad > On Mar 27, 2016, at 5:53 AM, Marin Dacos <marin.da...@openedition.org> wrote: > > Let’s hope it leads to concrete implementation sooner than the “Berlin > Declaration <http://www.

Re: [GOAL] FW: [accesouvert] Pour une science ouverte à tous

ed? After all, OA is not (and never has been) rocket science. It’s just raincoat science <http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/179-Raincoat-Science.html>. But I’m just repeating myself... SH > - Original Message - >> From: Stevan Harnad <mailto:amscifo.

Re: [GOAL] FW: [accesouvert] Pour une science ouverte à tous

Too verbose and vague: All scientific and scholarly research must be made freely accessible to everyone online immediately upon passing peer review. SH On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 3:10 AM, BAUIN Serge wrote: > Dear all, > (sorry for cross posting) > > For those who can read

[GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] Blog: Could the HEFCE policy be a Trojan Horse for gold OA?

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Danny Kingsley wrote: > > > Hello all, > > A new Unlocking Research blog published today “ Could the HEFCE policy be > a Trojan Horse for gold OA?” - > https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=488 is arguing that > changes to the HEFCE

[GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] Blog: Could the HEFCE policy be a Trojan Horse for gold OA?

PS 5. Stress cultivating the habit of self-deposit rather than proxy deposit. 6. Reward with regularly published and updated impact statistics (downloads, citations, etc.) in the institutional repository On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Stevan Harnad <amscifo...@gmail.com> wrote: &g

[GOAL] Re: Quo vadere?

hat the subsequent decades of quest for OA (toll-free access) would have ensued. Perhaps it was all just a big miscalculation (or failure to do the right calculation)? (I must say that I rather doubt it, but I certainly have not done the calculations.) I would add, though, that not only has reading

[GOAL] Re: Quo vadere?

online catalogue before placing your request.* *If the journal title is not held in the University of Tasmania Library, click to request." * Stevan Harnad > For context, the University is in the top ten Australian universities for > research, and in student size modest (27,000 stude

[GOAL] Re: Quo vadere?

If someone wants 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

[GOAL] Re: Quo vadere?

done in UK is really not sustainable. But > that was clear from the beginning. Maybe it becomes better when offsetting > agreements are set in place. > All just unreflective and unrealistic fantasy, I'm afraid. Apparently it will be reality (rather than heeding archivangelists) that sets us on a viable

[GOAL] Quo vadere?

gt; neutral Open Access funds. > > So I think we can and should promote more Green OA and care about a better > compliance. But if we really want to speed up the transition to Gold OA we > really should consider to give the subscription money a new purpose and use > it in a coordinate

[GOAL] "Yawanna know wush wrong with this damn planet...?."

thers (the UK's HEFCE/REF Policy, Belgium's FNR Policy) and some are still uncertain (the US OSTP Policy). 4. Let's settle for universal OA before demanding "much wider reform." (13 years' wait for just OA seems long enough already without insisting on conquering poverty too...) Stevan

[GOAL] Re: "Yawanna know wush wrong with this damn planet...?."

> On Dec 31, 2015, at 10:59 AM, Thomas Krichel <kric...@openlib.org> wrote: > > Stevan Harnad writes > >> 1. Actually, no one really knows why it is taking so long to reach the >> optimal and inevitable outcome -- universal OA -- > > oh I know. It's

[GOAL] Re: The open access movement slips into closed mode

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 5:24 AM, David Prosser wrote: > While we huff and puff about Berlin 12 and ridiculous suggestions that the > entire open access movement is slipping ‘into closed mode’, Elsevier is > having confidential meetings with UK Government Ministers of

[GOAL] Re: The open access movement slips into closed mode

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Richard Poynder wrote: > However, the way I see it is that as research funders (like Max Planck > and RCUK), governments and publishers increasingly come to accept the > inevitability of open access so the way in which it is achieved,

[GOAL] "Let them pay or let them wait"

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Wise, Alicia (ELS-OXF) wrote: > Hi Thomas - > > All our authors, no matter where in the world they are, have both gold and > green Open Access publishing options. > > With best wishes for a peaceful and relaxing holiday season, > > Alicia >

[GOAL] Re: Open Access, Almost-OA, OA Policies, and Institutional Repositories

*Anna Clements said...* Two points : 1. I agree with Stevan - CRIS complement IRs and are not competitors. 2. You mention assessment and ERA in particular. I have no experience of this assessment model but I can say that since the introduction of the post-2014 REF OA policy by HEFCE, the amount

[GOAL] Re: Open Access, Almost-OA, OA Policies, and Institutional Repositories

*On Horses, Water, and Life-Span* *"I have a feeling that when Posterity looks back at the last decade of the 2nd A.D. millennium of scholarly and scientific research on our planet, it may chuckle at us... I don't think there is any doubt in anyone's mind as to what the optimal and inevitable

[GOAL] Re: Open Access Network Austria (OANA): 16 Recommendations for 100% Open Access in 2025

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Reckling, Falk wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > > > a working group of the Open Access Network Austria (OANA) has published 16 > recommendations how to shift the academic publication system in Austria to > full (Gold) Open Access until 2025,

[GOAL] WoS, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and finding OA papers and their proportion

In “Web of Science, Scopus, and Open Access: What they are doing right and what they are doing wrong ” Ryan Regier discusses the current capacities and

[GOAL] Re: New mandate from main Dutch funder NWO

Bravo to NWO! I’ve updated the policy in ROARMAP: http://roarmap.eprints.org/241/ Now the only tweak it needs is to make it deposit immediately on acceptance rather than just upon publication (which can be months and months later). SH > On Nov 26, 2015, at 7:31 AM, Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen)

[GOAL] Re: Instistence by researchers that we do not make metadata

1. HEFCE requires immediate deposit (not immediate OA). so it is not in conflict with *Nature's* & *Science's* PR practices. (N has a 6-month embargo on OA;

[GOAL] Re: Instistence by researchers that we do not make metadata

5DD > +44 (0)1904 324170 > ORCID: -0001-5507-9738 > > > Web: www.york.ac.uk/library/info-for/researchers/ > <http://www.york.ac.uk/library/info-for/researchers/> > Email disclaimer: http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm > <http://www.york.ac.uk

[GOAL] Re: Inside Higher Ed: All six editors and all 31 editorial board members of Lingua resign over Elsevier

"Remove Access" would of course be absurd, and completely contrary to the spirit of OA (but that's not what J-CG meant). "Cease to Pay for Access," on the other hand, is a call for a perfectly valid and longstanding judgment-call by library serial acquisitions committees, in consultation with

[GOAL] CRIS/CERIF-based in-house alternative to selling out to Elsevier's PURE Bad Deal

On Nov 11, 2015, at 3:58 PM, Lucie Burgess wrote: Dear Stevan, all > I would be very interested to hear more about good (particularly > open-source if available) in-house university CRIS systems, from anyone who > is willing to share this information. We are

[GOAL] Re: PURE nonsense

eith.jeff...@keithgjefferyconsultants.co.uk> > Date: November 12, 2015 at 12:36:23 PM GMT-5 > To: Stevan Harnad <har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk> > Cc: "Lucie Burgess (lucie.burg...@bodleian.ox.ac.uk)" > <lucie.burg...@bodleian.ox.ac.uk> > Subject: RE: Liege

[GOAL] PURE nonsense

PURE is a Trojan Horse from Elsevier that (some) UK institutions have allowed to enter their portals. It is a trick, by Elsevier, to insinuate themselves into and retain control of everything they can: access, timing of access, fulfillment of mandates,

[GOAL] Re: Need for a new beginning

Just to add that I too agree completely with Chris and Jan. Éric (perhaps out of legal or commercial caution) responded to Beall in a polite deadpan style, but Beall's posting cannot be described as anything less that outrageous. A tendentious public query about undeclared interests coupled with a

[GOAL] Bernard Rentier on Green OA Mandates

Institutional repositories: it’s a matter of sticks and carrots *By Bernard Rentier* *Research Europe* *10-09-2015* *http://www.researchresearch.com/index.php?articleId=1354635=com_news=rr_2col=article *

[GOAL] Optimizing Open Access Policy

Harnad, Stevan (2015) Optimizing Open Access Policy. *Serials Review* (in press) http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/381526/ Abstract This overview of the current status of Open Access (OA) to peer-reviewed research describes the steps that need to be taken to achieve

[GOAL] Re: Predatory Publishing: A Modest Proposal

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 6:24 AM, David Prosser wrote: > To get an idea of the size of the problem of ‘predatory' publishers, does > anybody know: > > a) the proportion of papers published each year in ‘predatory’ publishers > compared to the total number of papers

[GOAL] Re: Predatory Publishing: A Modest Proposal

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Lars Bjørnshauge wrote: > Hi all > > if you look at Walt Crawfords fantastic work on OA-journals ( > http://citesandinsights.info/) I think it fair to say that we are talking > about 5% of papers published in fully OA-journals charging APCs - I have

[GOAL] Re: English version of the report “Open Science in Poland 2014. A Diagnosis”

acceptance for publication, as a prerequisite for research performance review and research funding. (All institutions should also implement the copy-request Button http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18511/.) Best wishes, Stevan Harnad Vincent-Lamarre, P, Boivin, J, Gargouri, Y, Larivière, V

[GOAL] Re: Kudos to Oxford for Act On Acceptance System for HEFCE/REF2020

(Mon, Wed, Fri) 020 8767 3516 (Tue, Thu) a.lewis[at]mdx.ac.uk http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk *From:* Stevan Harnad *Sent:* 12 August 2015 15:33 *To:* jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk *Subject:* Kudos to Oxford for Act On Acceptance System for HEFCE/REF2020 Kudos to the University of Oxford! Although

[GOAL] Re: OA Provision vs. OA Semiology

of the 15th August that OA f ree, colored and hightly precious terminology has been discussed more than 100 times . I should have said : 1000 times! Hélène Bosc - Original Message - From: Stevan Harnad mailto:amscifo...@gmail.com To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci

[GOAL] OA Provision vs. OA Semiology

a decade and a half I think it would be a good idea to stop fussing about what to call it, and focus instead on providing it... Stevan Harnad On Aug 19, 2015, at 3:00 AM, MIGUEL ERNESTO NAVAS FERNANDEZ miguel.na...@ub.edu wrote: Dear all, I would like to answer to the definitions given

[GOAL] Re: OA Provision vs. OA Semiolog

at Universitat de Barcelona Member of Acceso Abierto research group Associate Editor of DOAJ ORCID Linkedin Twitter Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 07:42:44 -0400 From: Stevan Harnad amscifo...@gmail.com Subject: [GOAL] OA Provision vs. OA Semiology To: Global Open

[GOAL] Re: libre vs open - general language issues

the text free. 7. Libre OA seeks to make the text open. Best regards, Stevan Harnad 1. Green OA means *OA provided by the author* (usually by self-archiving the refereed, revised, accepted final draft in an OA repository) 2. Gold OA means OA *provided by the journal* (often for a publication fee

[GOAL] Re: Open peer review at Collabra: QA with UC Press Director Alison Mudditt

So many natural questions come to mind; here are a few: 1. This is a new start-up journal, and a megajournal, and an OA journal: How representative of anything is the initial uptake rate for open peer review: for quality? for scaleability? for sustainability? 2. On what evidence is it stated

[GOAL] Re: libre vs open - general language issues

to call it, and focus instead on providing it... Stevan Harnad, Erstwhile Archivangelist On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Beall, Jeffrey jeffrey.be...@ucdenver.edu wrote: For the record, some also use the term platinum open access, which refers to open-access publications for which

[GOAL] Re: libre vs open - general language issues

Perhaps it’s time for our newcomer, Nicolas Pettiaux, to stop posting for a while and do a little reading to inform himself about OA and its (short) history. Otherwise he is just making us recapitulate it for him. On Aug 14, 2015, at 12:03 PM, Nicolas Pettiaux nico...@pettiaux.be wrote: Dear

[GOAL] Kudos to Oxford for Act On Acceptance System for HEFCE/REF2020

Kudos to the University of Oxford! Although the Oxford 2013 http://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/wp-uploads/2013/03/Statement-on-Open-Access-at-the-University-of-Oxford-Approved-by-Council-on-11-March-2013.pdf Statement on Open Access was rather weak and vague, it has now been reinforced by Open Access

[GOAL] The United States Open Government Action Plan

The United States Open Government Action Plan A timely model for all democratic governments. https://hackpad.com/How-to-participate-in-development-of-the-U.S.-Open-Government-National-Action-Plan-3.0-lYDkyBe1aCZ ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org

[GOAL] OA vs CC-BY-NOW

need a strategy that *scales*. Stevan Harnad On 22 Jun 2015, at 12:34, Stephen Downes step...@downes.ca wrote: as I would define it And I would define it as *more* free than licenses thatg allow people to charge money for access to the document. This sort of insistence on One Special

[GOAL] Google Scholar's Anurag Acharya on Repository Indexability

Most repository queries and referrals come from google scholar and google users. So it is crucial to get repository contents well indexed by google. Here are some tips from Google Scholar's Anurag Acharya: http://www.or2015.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/or-2015-anurag-google-scholar.pdf This is

[GOAL] Openness

*William Gunn* https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/-/2008076.publicprofile (Mendeley) wrote: “[*E]verything you could post publicly and immediately before, you can do so now. There's a NEW category of author manuscript, one which now comes with Elsevier-supplied metadata specifying the license

[GOAL] Cross Purposes

No, the purpose of “repository-focused green open access” is not -- and never has been -- to prompt libraries to cancel journal subscriptions, forcing publishers to restrict themselves to coordinating peer review at a vastly reduced price from that currently charged for journal-focused “gold” open

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

to meaninglessness (and would play into the hands of publishers who would like to see precisely that happen). Stevan Harnad On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 5:00 AM, Heather Morrison heather.morri...@uottawa.ca wrote: hi David, Redefining open access and understanding that a great many people are moving towards

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

Yes, Delayed Access is better than no access. (Toll access is better than no access too.) Yes, publisher embargoes have cowed (some) authors into providing Delayed Access instead of Open Access. But that does not make Delayed Access Open Access. And the objective is to provide Open Access,

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

downsizing and conversion to Fair-Gold OA (Libre: CC-BY-NC-ND or CC-BY, as desired by authors, their institutions and funders) Stevan Harnad *From:* goal-boun...@eprints.org [goal-boun...@eprints.org] on behalf of brent...@ulg.ac.be [brent...@ulg.ac.be] *Sent:* Monday, June 01, 2015 11:02 AM

[GOAL] Re: In Defence of Elsevier

later step forward.) On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Stevan Harnad amscifo...@gmail.com wrote: I beg the OA community to remain reasonable and realistic. *Please don't demand that Elsevier agree to immediate CC-BY. *If Elsevier did that, I could immediately start up a rival free-riding

[GOAL] In Defence of Elsevier

I beg the OA community to remain reasonable and realistic. *Please don't demand that Elsevier agree to immediate CC-BY. *If Elsevier did that, I could immediately start up a rival free-riding publishing operation and sell all Elsevier articles immediately at cut rate, for any purpose at all that

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

such as yourself. Éric Archambault President and CEO, Science-Metrix Inc. President and CEO, 1science Inc. *From:* goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] *On Behalf Of *Stevan Harnad *Sent:* May-25-15 2:24 PM *To:* Global Open Access List (Successor

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

to actually do anything. So this license makes these articles definitively non open access. -Mike On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Stevan Harnad amscifo...@gmail.com wrote: *Alicia Wise wrote* http://www.elsevier.com/connect/coar-recting-the-record#comment-2037996108 : *Dear Stevan,* *I

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

and increasingly arbitrary and annoying nuisance-rules. Best wishes, *Stevan Harnad* ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] Fwd: Request for clarifications from Elsevier

retrospectively, which is to say, institutions can be asked to take down articles that were posted according to the old policies, with some possible negotiable wiggle time to accommodate transitions. 2. is Stevan Harnad correct, or not correct, in claiming in the combox at http://www.elsevier.com

[GOAL] Fwd: Request for clarifications from Elsevier

policy applies retrospectively, which is to say, institutions can be asked to take down articles that were posted according to the old policies, with some possible negotiable wiggle time to accommodate transitions. 2. is Stevan Harnad correct, or not correct, in claiming in the combox at http

[GOAL] Re: COAR-recting the record

the disgraceful and tendentious spin with which they are now trying to sell their unfair, unclear and exploitative back-pedalling. Stevan Harnad On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Wise, Alicia (ELS-OXF) a.w...@elsevier.com wrote: Hello everyone – Just a quick note to draw your attention to our

[GOAL] Re: Global coalition of organizations denounce Elsevier's new sharing policy

understandably will not subscribe if the content is immediately available for free. Our sharing policy now reflects that reality. With kind wishes, Alicia Dr Alicia Wise Director of Access Policy Elsevier a.w...@elsevier.com @wisealic — STEVAN HARNAD Dear Alicia, Unless I am

[GOAL] Re: Has the OA movement over-reacted to challenges on peer review?

track records for quality). New forms of peer review need time too, to demonstrate that they work. Stevan Harnad Dana L. Roth Millikan Library / Caltech 1-32 1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125 626-395-6423 fax 626-792-7540 dzr...@library.caltech.edu mailto:dzr

[GOAL] Re: Fair Golf vs. Fools Gold

The subject header should of course have read Fair Gold vs Apologies for the typo. (Someone will surely find a punny in there...) On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Stevan Harnad amscifo...@gmail.com wrote: Predictably, I won’t try to calculate how much a fair Gold OA fee should be because

[GOAL] Fair Golf vs. Fools Gold

Predictably, I won’t try to calculate how much a fair Gold OA fee should be because (as I have argued and tried to show many times before) I do not think there can be a Fair Gold OA fee until Green OA has been universally mandated and provided: Pre-Green Gold is Fools Gold http://j.mp/foolsGOLDoa.

[GOAL] Re: Fair Gold vs. Fools Gold

. It is doing it already. What Google Scholar does not index is not OA (or badly tagged by the repositories). SH Jean-Claude Guédon Professeur titulaire Littérature comparée Université de Montréal Le jeudi 14 mai 2015 à 14:07 -0400, Stevan Harnad a écrit : The subject header should of course

[GOAL] Re: Journal Impact Factor will show that embargo hurts the Impact Factor and thus the reputation and value of subscription-based journals

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Éric Archambault eric.archamba...@science-metrix.com wrote: Stevan and other proponents of OA are adamant that embargoes are unacceptable. It is a huge fight, a very unequal one. What is likely to happen to give the final word to these advocates and lead to

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier updates it article-sharing policies, perspectives and services

Kidlington I Oxford I OX5 1GB M: +44 (0) 7823 536 826 I E: a.w...@elsevier.com *Twitter: @wisealic* *From:* Repositories discussion list [mailto: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Stevan Harnad *Sent:* Friday, May 01, 2015 1:24 PM *To:* jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier (and other traditional publishers) and PLOS

their works published with Elsevier freely available through institutional archives. This is one thing green open access can achieve right now that gold OA cannot. I'd like to acknowledge that Stevan Harnad has been right on this point for many, many years. I'm still signed on for the Elsevier

[GOAL] Endorsement Is Not Peer Review

://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13309/ Please also see the reference below, on crowd-sourcing. Stevan Harnad Sent from Jan Velterop's iPhone. Please excuse for brevity and typos. On 1 May 2015, at 10:10, Stevan Harnad amscifo...@gmail.com wrote: The only essential cost in peer-reviewed research publication

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier (and other traditional publishers) and PLOS

-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] *On Behalf Of *Stevan Harnad *Sent:* May-01-15 5:11 AM *To:* Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) *Subject:* [GOAL] Re: Elsevier (and other traditional publishers) and PLOS The only essential cost in peer-reviewed research

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier updates it article-sharing policies, perspectives and services

On May 1, 2015, at 7:30 AM, Wise, Alicia (ELS-OXF) a.w...@elsevier.com wrote: Dear Stevan – Elsevier supports the need for researchers to share their research and collaborate effectively. In light of the recent STM consultation on the principles for article sharing,

[GOAL] Evidence-Based vs. Ideology-Based Open Access Policy

In my own opinion there have been four main reasons for the exceedingly slow growth of OA (far, far slower than it could have been) — (1) author inertia and needless copyright worries, (2) publisher resistance via lobbying and OA embargoes, (3) premature and needless fixation on Gold OA publishing

[GOAL] Open Access Policy: Numbers, Analysis, Effectiveness

Swan, Alma, Gargouri, Yassine, Hunt, Megan and Harnad, Stevan (2015) Open Access Policy: Numbers, Analysis, Effectiveness. *Pasteur4OA Work Package 3 report: Open Access policies *http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/375854/ The PASTEUR4OA project analyses what makes an Open Access (OA) policy effective.

[GOAL] HEFCE/REF Exception Applies to Open Access Date, Not to Deposit

As clearly stated in the Review of the Implementation of the RCUK Policy on Open access http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/RCUK-prod/assets/documents/documents/Openaccessreport.pdf , the HEFCE/REF exception is not to the deposit requirement but to the OA requirement, and that makes all the difference in the

[GOAL] Canada's Tri-Agency OA Mandate

http://www.science.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=Enn=415B5097-1 This OA Policy is now improved, but to be optimal it would need to require immediate deposit (upon acceptance for publication), not only after the allowable 12-month embargo has elapsed. It would also help to integrate and align it with

[GOAL] UK HEFCE/REF Open Access Policy FAQs

://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/RequestCopy), with one click from the requestor and one click from the author.) *Stevan Harnad* Begin forwarded message: *Date: *February 10, 2015 at 9:02:59 AM GMT-5 *From: *Ben Johnson (HEFCE) b.john...@hefce.ac.uk *Subject: **Update to REF Open Access FAQs

[GOAL] Simon Says Peer Review

they are refereed, revised and accepted, making their refereed postprints OA too...) Calls to mind Simon Says or Do as I do, not as I say I do...: http://j.mp/SaysSimon *Stevan Harnad* ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman

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