Erasmus University Rector Proposes Green OA Deposit Mandate

2010-01-17 Thread Stevan Harnad
** Cross-Posted ** [See fully hyperlinked version: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/688-guid.html ] Professor Henk Schmidt, Rector of Erasmus University, Rotterdam, in an interview http://bit.ly/8098go about Open Access conducted by Leo Waaijers, has announced that he

Re: Creating Institutional Repositories Is Not the Problem

2010-01-17 Thread Steve Hitchcock
Stevan, What you describe on this scale is a repository, not an institutional repository. For it to be the latter it has to have some semblance of institutional backing, either top-down (e.g. policy, mandates) and bottom-up (wide usage by authors). Two mistakes made by many so-called IRs:

Erasmus University Rector Proposes Green OA Deposit Mandate

2010-01-17 Thread Stevan Harnad
** Cross-Posted ** [See fully hyperlinked version: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/688-guid.html ] Professor Henk Schmidt, Rector of Erasmus University, Rotterdam, in an interview http://bit.ly/8098go about Open Access conducted by Leo Waaijers, has announced that he

Re: Roundtable Press Release (Access to Research Results)

2010-01-17 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Sally Morris sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk wrote: Stevan asserts that researchers who cannot afford access to the published version of articles are perfectly happy with the self-archived author's final version. Interestingly, in our survey of learned

Re: Roundtable Press Release (Access to Research Results)

2010-01-17 Thread Heather Morrison
On 17-Jan-10, at 6:42 AM, Sally Morris wrote: Stevan asserts that researchers who cannot afford access to the published version of articles are perfectly happy with the self-archived author's final version. Interestingly, in our survey of learned society members (see

Re: Roundtable Press Release (Access to Research Results)

2010-01-17 Thread Klaus Graf
I cannot see any empirical evidence that the assertion below is more than wishful thinking. 2010/1/17 Heather Morrison hgmor...@sfu.ca: On 17-Jan-10, at 6:42 AM, Sally Morris wrote: Stevan asserts that researchers who cannot afford access to the published version of articles are perfectly

Re: Roundtable Press Release (Access to Research Results)

2010-01-17 Thread Sally Morris
Those who look beyond the abstract will find that we did, indeed, ask where they looked for articles Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk -Original Message- From: American

On PDFs, Request-Buttons, Sense and Evidence

2010-01-17 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Klaus Graf klausg...@googlemail.com wrote: KG: I cannot see any empirical evidence that the assertion below is more than wishful thinking. Keep reading: SM: Stevan asserts that researchers who cannot afford access to the published version of articles are