RE: Jean-Claude Gu�don is wrong, and so is Zinath Rehana
I will save the time of the subscribers of this list by just saying that I completely subscribe Alma Swan message, and their sensible and reasonable points. Eloy Rodrigues Universidade do Minho - Serviços de Documentação Campus de Gualtar - 4710 - 057 Braga Telefone: + 351 253604150; Fax: + 351 253604159 Campus de Azurém - 4800 - 058 Guimarães Telefone: + 351 253510168; Fax: + 351 253510117 -Original Message- From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Alma Swan Sent: sexta-feira, 3 de Outubro de 2008 06:10 To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re: Jean-Claude Guédon is wrong, and so is Zinath Rehana I've changed the subject line for this message and I hope the moderator of this forum will let it stand even though it breaks the thread. I do not wish to be associated in any way with the sentiments of those previous comments about the management of this list. No doubt Jean-Claude will also wish to dissociate himself from the new bedfellow he has unwittingly acquired. All people respectful of the professional endeavours of Richard Poynder must surely have shared my disgust at the tone and the content of SJI co-founder Zinath Rehana's original post (linked to below). To level public accusations of libel, harassment, intimidation and arrogance at a journalist whom many of us know from personal experience to pursue his practice with skill, balance, courtesy, respect and complete professionalism is rotten enough. To resort to a smear of racism is well beyond the pale. It would be even if there had been the slightest hint that any racism were in play in Poynder's investigations. That there wasn't, and that he was going about his business employing his usual rigorous, professional standards, makes it all the more disgraceful. This list is no place for such histrionics and dirty play and I register my full support for the moderator for making a judgment not to post a message that was way past the point of decency and respectful argument and which appears (to my non-legal eye) to have strayed into libellous territory. Posting such a message would have been a bad decision. Alma Swan Key perspectives Ltd Truro, UK On 03/10/2008 01:18, Stevan Harnad amscifo...@gmail.com wrote: Rehana is absolutely right. I did not approve for posting on the American Scientist Open Access Forum Rehana's posting entitled Lies, fear and smear campaigns against SJI and other OA journals because it was my judgment as moderator that the posting was libelous and defamatory. I stand by that judgment. The curious may see the posting in question at: https://arl.org/lists/sparc-oaforum/Message/4526.html See also: OA Needs Open Evidence, Not Anonymous Innuendo http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/455-guid.html I invite the Forum to let me know whether they would prefer a moderator who allows such postings. If so, I will obligingly end my 10-year tenure as moderator of the American Scientist Open Access Forum, as I would under no circumstance moderate a Forum that allowed such postings. Be advised, though, that this Forum has about 1000 members, and to be voted down as moderator, I would expect to hear from a plurality of the members, not just from the inevitable disgruntled few. I am, however, quite ready to step down, if that is the prevailing wish. Stevan Harnad On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Rehana i...@scientificjournals.org wrote: Jean-Claude Guédon is absolutely right! This is not the first time the moderator of AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM has resorted to censorship. He has censored our response to misinformation posted by someone on the forum. It is really sad that a forum that is set up to promote open access, is resorting to censorship. I am copying this message to Jean-Claude Guédon so that this message is not censored by the moderator. Jean-Claude Guédon has my permission to include this message in his post as another example of censorship. I would not be surprised if my account is closed by the moderator so that I would not be able to receive any more updates and challenge such censorship.
Re: Call for a vote of nonconfidence in the moderator of the AmSci Forum
I think this discussion should not go on indefinitely here on the list! There are two separate issues, that are being mixed and confused here. 1 - Stevan's position as moderator 2 - Stevan's style as poster Regarding the first, I think one should ask himself if Stevan has done something wrong on his role as moderator (and if he has done it recently for all this fuss now). As he censored, or had any other action limiting the diffusion, of any legitimate message about OA sent to the list? Despite some previous claims, afterwards denied, I think the answer is NO. So, I think Stevan has been doing a great job keeping the list on topic, I'm thankful for all the work and time he invests on moderating the list, and I'm really amazed with all this thread of discussion (started by unfunded claims of censorship). But as it started, I agree with the call for a vote, but of list Regarding the second point, I think no one should censor or impose a style on the postings of other members of the list (provided that they respect basic rules of social behavior). In my opinion that would really constitute censorship. But it's only my opinion! But if there a members thinking that we should have a manual of posting style for the list, please write it, and propose it to the list and we can vote it, again of list (I would be really curious, to see the proposed borders of what would be admissible or not admissible regarding the reply and comment of other postings- could I cite/comment an expression, a phrase, a paragraph?). As long as we don't have a Manual of posting style approved, I don't think no one (not even many voices) can impose a limitation on the freedom of expression of any member of the list! Eloy Rodrigues Universidade do Minho - Serviços de Documentação Campus de Gualtar - 4710 - 057 Braga Telefone: + 351 253604150; Fax: + 351 253604159 Campus de Azurém - 4800 - 058 Guimarães Telefone: + 351 253510168; Fax: + 351 253510117 -Original Message- From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Sally Morris (Morris Associates) Sent: terça-feira, 7 de Outubro de 2008 14:10 To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re: Call for a vote of nonconfidence in the moderator of the AmSci Forum We could try having a different moderator, freeing Stevan to post, and to respond to others' postings (preferably, as several respondents have indicated, in a concise self-contained message, rather than interpolated into the original or a summary thereof) without any ambiguity as to his standing vis-à-vis other list members. Then we could see whether list members find it better, worse, or no different I for one would nominate Charles Oppenheim, if he's willing to take on the role Sally Sally Morris Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy) South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701 202806 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk -Original Message- From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: 07 October 2008 13:37 To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Call for a vote of nonconfidence in the moderator of the AmSci Forum On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:37 AM, c.oppenh...@lboro.ac.uk c.oppenh...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: I totally support Jean-Claude's view. I can only repeat what I said before: (1) I am happy to put an end to my 10-year moderatorship of the American Scientist Open Access Forum and hand it over to someone else who is willing to do it, but only if it is requested by a plurality of the membership, not if it is merely requested by a few dissatisfied members. (2) The moderator's role is to filter postings, approving the relevant ones, and rejecting the off-topic or ad-hominem ones. (3) Apart from that, the moderator has no special status or authority (other than what may accrue from the substance of his postings), and may post *exactly* as any other poster may post, including the posting of quotes, comments, critiques, elaborations, rebuttals *and summaries*. By my count, there have not been many votes one way or the other, but of the few votes there have been, more seem to be expressing confidence in my moderatorship than those that are calling for me to be replaced. I have also been accused of of censorship, by both Jean-Claude and Sally, the charge being subsequently rescinded. If there are doubts about whether I can be trusted to post or tally the votes -- or, more important, if we are to spare the Forum the bandwidth of votes appearing instead of OA substance -- I am also quite happy to direct the votes to be sent to a trusted 3rd party for tallying, if that is the wish of the Forum. Stevan Harnad Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim Head Department of Information
New New Spanish Funder's Open Access mandate - Comunidad Madrid
[On behalf of Alicia López Medina] Madrid Autonomous Community of Spain mandates Open Access for its funded research results. (... )researchers beneficiary of the grant programme must facilitate open access to their research results in the institutional repository of their institution or in the independent repository of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, where they will deposit a copy of the published article version or the author's final version and extra materials in a period no longer than 6 months for the areas of Technology and Biosciences and 12 months for the areas of Social Sciences and Humanities, to count from the official date of publication of the articles in the journal. From the point 9 of the regulation for financing RD by the Madrid Community: Status: O 9. De conformidad con la política de fomento del acceso abierto a los resultados de la investigación científica impulsada por la Comunidad de Madrid, que se alinea con las políticas y recomendaciones realizadas al respecto por la Unión Europea, los investigadores beneficiarios del programa *deberán* facilitar el acceso abierto a los resultados de su investigación en el repositorio institucional disponible a tal efecto en su universidad, organismo público de investigación y/o en el repositorio independiente de la Comunidad de Madrid, en el que deberán depositar una copia del artículo publicado o la versión final del mismo, aceptada para su publicación, junto con los documentos de trabajo, los resultados de los experimentos, etcétera, en un plazo no superior a seis meses para las áreas de tecnologías y biociencias y de doce meses para las áreas de ciencias sociales y humanidades desde el momento de publicación del artículo. ORDEN 679/2009, de 19 de febrero, por la que se establecen las bases reguladoras de ayudas a programas de actividades de I + D entre grupos de investigación de la Comunidad de Madrid y convocatoria en tecnologías cofinanciada con Fondo Social Europeo http://www.madrimasd.org/informacionidi/convocatorias/2009/documentos/Orden_ 679-2009_19-02-09_Convocatoria_Ayuda_Programas_Actividades_Tecnonologia.pdf Eloy Rodrigues Universidade do Minho - Serviços de Documentação Campus de Gualtar - 4710 - 057 Braga Telefone: + 351 253604150; Fax: + 351 253604159 Campus de Azurém - 4800 - 058 Guimarães Telefone: + 351 253510168; Fax: + 351 253510117
[GOAL] Re: Request for information on repository request-copy Button
Dear Stevan, I completely support the request to have the Request Copy functionality embedded in the vanilla DSpace versions. We've been upgrading the Request Copy Add-on (for the jsp interface, that it's the one we are using) since we first developed it. We are currently upgrading the Add-on for DSpace 3.2 (we are upgrading our repository to DSpace 3.2), and the production version of the Add-on is for DSpace 1.8xx repositories. We are obviously willing to contribute the Addon code to be included in the DSpace core, and strongly support that integration. Best, Serviços de Documentação Eloy Rodrigues Direcção Campus de Gualtar, 4710 - 057 Braga - Portugal Telefone +351 253 604 156/7/8; Fax +351 253 604 159 Campus de Azurém, 4800 058 Guimarães Telefone +351 253 510 168; Fax +351 253 510 117 http://www.sdum.uminho.pt http://www.sdum.uminho.pt/ | Siga-nos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Braga-Portugal/Bibliotecas-da-Universidade-do-Minho/78518268502 http://twitter.com/bibliotecasUM De: Stevan Harnad [mailto:har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk] Enviada: quinta-feira, 17 de Outubro de 2013 15:34 Para: Eloy Rodrigues; Bram Luyten; Carol Minton Morris Cc: dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net; eprints-t...@ecs.soton.ac.uk List; jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk; Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Assunto: Re: Request for information on repository request-copy Button Dear Eloy, Bram Carol, As Eloy was the first to adopt the Button for DSpace, could you or Bram (or anyone else) please help with this? It apparently needs an upgrade, and it's especially important to provide and embed it in DSpace core at this crucial time in the evolution of OA policy worldwide. The Button is an essential component in an effective OA mandate. http://dspace.2283337.n4.nabble.com/Re-Use-of-e-print-request-button-td4665355.html https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/RequestCopy Many thanks for any help or information you can provide, Stevan Begin forwarded message: - Original Message - From: Hutchinson, Alvin hutchins...@si.edu mailto:hutchins...@si.edu To: hbosc-tcher...@orange.fr mailto:hbosc-tcher...@orange.fr Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 3:28 PM Subject: Request for information on repository request-copy Button I received a message stating that you are interested in the use of Request Copy button in repositories. We at the Smithsonian Libraries use DSpace and have employed the Request Copy button for several years. However, it is becoming problematic as the plugin does not seem to have any active development or upgrades. I'm not sure how familiar you are with DSpace but for several versions, there has been an XML user interface as well as the original JSP (java server pages) interface. The Request Copy plugin only works with *.jsp and that is very limiting. We would like to upgrade to the current version but will have to give up the functionality which many of our users like to have. Please take a minute to tell me something about your interest and your work. Best, Alvin Hutchinson Smithsonian Libraries image001.jpgimage002.gifimage003.gifimage004.jpg___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] FOSTER - Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research - renewed web presence
Apologies for cross posting FOSTER proudly announces that, as of today, the Open Access and Open Science communities will benefit two-fold from our freshly designed new web presencehttp://www.fosteropenscience.eu/. First off: the renewed FOSTER project website now features various enhancements, most notably a comprehensive news section with an account of the many contributions the project partners made throughout the last months to several events and conferences. One of the main events was a series of workshops delivered by FOSTER speakers to EU project officers in Brussels on Open Access Requirements to publications and research data in Horizon. See the video recording and slideshttp://www.fosteropenscience.eu/project/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=35:presentationscatid=9:downloadItemid=107 of all the presentations. The second addition to our web presence is a preview of the FOSTER training portalhttp://wwwt.fosteropenscience.eu which has started to collect all information around FOSTER funded and (co-) organized training events. See our full training programme throughout the second half of 2014 with links to the training organizations and information on how to register for your favorite course. Looking for a specific training topic? Eight main areas cover courses on Open Access, Open Data and Open Science as well as on Research Data Management, Funder compliance and related fields including specific subjects like metrics and copyright issues. The portal will be enriched over the next weeks with content that each of these courses delivers. Look forward to discovering a wealth of material provided for the European research community! About FOSTER - www.fosteropenscience.euhttp://www.fosteropenscience.eu FOSTER (Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research) is a 2-year, EU-Funded (FP7) project, carried out by 13 partners across 8 countries. The primary aim is to produce a European-wide training programme that will help researchers, postgraduate students, librarians and other stakeholders to incorporate Open Access approaches into their existing research methodologies. [cid:image002.jpg@01CF6ADF.C156DBA0] Serviços de Documentação Eloy Rodrigues Direcção Campus de Gualtar, 4710 - 057 Braga - Portugal Telefone +351 253 604 150; Fax +351 253 604 159 Campus de Azurém, 4800 058 Guimarães Telefone +351 253 510 168; Fax +351 253 510 117 http://www.sdum.uminho.pthttp://www.sdum.uminho.pt/ | Siga-nos [cid:image003.gif@01CF6ADF.C156DBA0] http://www.facebook.com/pages/Braga-Portugal/Bibliotecas-da-Universidade-do-Minho/78518268502 [cid:image004.gif@01CF6ADF.C156DBA0] http://twitter.com/bibliotecasUM [cid:image005.jpg@01CF6ADF.C156DBA0] ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Open Science Fair - Call for proposals and Registration Open
The Open Science Fair (OSFAIR2019) will be held September 16-18th 2019 in the wonderful city of Porto, Portugal. The Programme Committee is pleased to invite you to contribute to the program. This year's theme is: Synergies for Sustainable, Open and Responsible Research OSFAIR2019 will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of work related to the foundational or more concrete aspects of Open Science (from Open Access, to FAIRness of research results and Open Innovation) and Responsible Research and Innovation. We welcome proposals for workshops, which may vary between 90, 120 and 180 minutes (https://www.opensciencefair.eu/call-for-workshops-2019). We are also inviting Posters and and Demos (https://www.opensciencefair.eu/call-for-posters-demos-2019) propposals, as an opportunity to individuals, teams and projects to showcase the latest knowledge and potential solutions to support Open Science and FAIR data in the academic, commercial or public environment. All proposals should be submitted until May 17th through OSFAIR2019 submission system - https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=osfair2019. The Registration to OSFAIR2019 is already open (https://www.opensciencefair.eu/register), with Early Bird Registration closing on July 1st! We look forward to your proposals and to see you in Porto! The OSF2019 Programme Committee [cid:image002.jpg@01CF6ADF.C156DBA0] Serviços de Documentação Eloy Rodrigues Direcção Campus de Gualtar, 4710 - 057 Braga - Portugal Telefone +351 253 604 150; Fax +351 253 604 159 Campus de Azurém, 4800 058 Guimarães Telefone +351 253 510 168; Fax +351 253 510 117 http://www.sdum.uminho.pt<http://www.sdum.uminho.pt/> | Siga-nos [cid:image003.gif@01CF6ADF.C156DBA0] <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Braga-Portugal/Bibliotecas-da-Universidade-do-Minho/78518268502> [cid:image004.gif@01CF6ADF.C156DBA0] <http://twitter.com/bibliotecasUM> [aenor] ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
