On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Peter Suber wrote: > Here's a January 19 posting from Open Access News: > > >Gerhard Beier and Ulla Tschida, Journal Publishers Approaches to > >Self-Archiving and Open Access : ZIM Briefing Paper, > ><http://edoc.mpg.de/48868>, a preprint (without full-text) on the Max > >Planck Society eDoc Server, last revised October 14, 2003. Abstract: > >"Analysis of 80 scholarly publishers' copyright agreements - Selected > >examples from major publishers regarding self-archiving - Selected Reading > >and selected websites - Appendix A: Analysis of Copyright Transfer > >Agreements (CTA) and/or Licences of commercial Publishers and Learned > >Societies-Extracts." (Thanks to Klaus Graf.) > http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_01_18_fosblogarchive.html#a107453706106871194 > > I thought you'd be interested in the following update: > > >Update. When I first blogged this, only a citation and abstract were > >posted to the Max Planck eDoc Server. But now the full-text > ><http://edoc.mpg.de/get.epl?fid=3507&did=48868&ver=1> is online. (Thanks > >to Bernd-Christoph Kaemper.)
This note from Peter is very interesting. At the moment, however, the views from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DAOJ) http://www.doaj.org/ the OAIster Directory of Institutional Archives http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/ and the Romeo and the Directory of Publisher Policies on Author/Institution self-archiving http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/Romeo%20Publisher%20Policies.htm are all still too static! What we need is a sense of how they are growing with time. I strongly urge all three directories to adopt provide the kind of continuously updated time-series that Tim Brody has provided for EPrints: http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php supplementing and updating the older data from: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0032.gif to http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0043.gif Without time-based data we will not have a realistic idea of whether and how fast OA is growing! Stevan Harnad
