On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Tomasz Neugebauer (Digital Projects
Systems Development Librarian, Concordia University) wrote:
A granting agency can make open access to the results of
the research a condition of funding, but a university
mandate that makes the university IR
On 6-Feb-09, at 10:38 AM, Tomasz Neugebauer wrote:
[snip]
When a researcher makes the decision to publish/provide access to
their work, the emergent properties of the repository are a relevant
consideration. Consider the following hypothetical situation: a
researcher in Buddhist studies may,
On 10/02/2009 15:46, Stevan Harnad amscifo...@gmail.com wrote:
Tomasz, now that you have voiced your own opinion, it
would be a good idea for you to read the background
literature on this topic. There you will find the large,
multidisciplinary and multinational author
if a central depository is correlated with a political
entity, particularly a national government, then it may
be in a position to secure a national mandate in one
single move.
Indeed. And France's HAL has been correlated with a political entity:
the French government.
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Consider the logic of Stevan's argument.
I gave an example of one central, multi-disciplinary repository, HAL,
because
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Tomasz Neugebauer wrote:
A granting agency can make open access to the results of
the research a condition of funding, but a university
mandate that makes the university IR the compulsory locus
of deposit... is not a good idea.
