On 2012-05-12, at 8:42 AM, Dan Brickley wrote: > Thought experiment: what if authors posted to their personal sites, but with > enough metadata (e.g. http://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle) for generic (rather > than topical/institutional) search engine discovery to be feasible?
1. If 100% of authors posted (self-archived) the full-text of their articles, free for all, on their websites, we would have 100% OA; there would be no need to post to topical or institutional repositories, and google-style full-text indexing would do the rest. 2. The trouble is that 80% of authors do not post the full-text of their articles, free for all, *anywhere*. 3. That's why we need Institutional Repositories, and (Green, Gratis) OA self-archiving (posting) mandates from institutions and funders. 4. And that's why it matters what we put on out wish-list for well-intentioned publishers. 5. Metadata have next to nothing to do with it: It's about the posting (anywhere, free online) of the full-text. > On 2012-05-11, at 6:47 PM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > >> Alicia Wise already knows my reply - she has had enough email from me. The >> publishers should withdraw contractual restrictions on content-mining. >> That's all they need to do. >> >> If Alicia Wise can say "yes" to me unreservedly, I'll be happy. > > So let's all forget about OA... _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
