Dear John,
this is interesting and good work. However, Ï'm a bit puzzled as the GRID is
still empty. Is it your intention to crowdsource the "answers" to fill the grid
with? Of course there are often no simple answers. They'll need to be generic
yet nuanced.
BTW As a discovery pathway I would
Jean Claude,
Yes, http://dissem.in is a good example of available open source
technology which seeks to score an author's output to identify articles
that Sherpa/Romeo indicates could be shared but haven't been. This can
help educate authors about the best places to adequately share their
Heather,
You raise some excellent points. The purpose of this GRID is not to
advocate for any particular "fix" to the problems of Discovery but simply
to make clear where there are disconnects between the intention of authors,
or publishers (such as Gold OA publishers), or funding agencies
Interesting question and direction. This raises at least two different
questions for me:
1. Is access via for-pay discovery tools and knowledge bases a goal for
open access? I am concerned that the most liberal open licenses, allowing
downstream re-use by anyone for commercial purposes,
I am not sure of being quite on target, but I will risk it anyway. This
perspective seems to me to complete the dissemin tool in useful ways.
To inspect what Dissemin is about, just check http://dissem.in .
And if I am totally off base, please tell me. I stand to be corrected,
if needed.
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