On 2012-04-12, at 5:44 AM, Steve Hitchcock wrote: > Do we know why Pubmed does not apparently link to papers in IRs? > Is this Pubmed policy, or is there a technical reason? > > Stephen Curry: PubMed, the first port of call for anyone searching > the biomedical literature, frequently links to publisherâs site but > never to institutional repositories > http://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2012/03/18/elsevier-the-research-works-act-and-open-access-where-to-now/
PubMed & PubMed Central are wonderful resources, but not nearly as resourceful or wonderful as they easily could be. (1) PMC & UKPMC should of course be harvesting or linking institutional repository (IR) versions of papers, not just PMC/UKPMC-deposited and publisher-hosted papers. (2) Funders should be mandating IR deposit and PMC harvesting rather than direct PMC deposit. By thus making funder mandates and institutional mandates convergent and collaborative instead of divergent and competitive, this will motivate and facilitate adoption and compliance with institutional mandates: institutions are the universal providers of all research output, funded and unfunded. (3) IRs should mandate immediate deposit irrespective of publisher OA policy: If authors wish to honor publisher OA embargoes, they can set access to the deposit as Closed Access during the embargo and rely on providing almost-OA via the IR's email eprint request button (4) Funder mandates should require deposit by the fundee -- the one bound by the mandate -- rather than by the publisher, who is not bound by the mandate, and indeed in conflict of interest with it. http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/876-.html (5) Publishers (partly to protect from rival publisher free-loading, partly to discourage funder mandates, and partly out of simple misunderstanding of network capability) are much more likely to endorse immediate institutional self-archiving than institution-external deposit. This yet another reason funders should mandate institutional deposit and metadata harvesting instead of direct institution-external deposit. Stevan Harnad _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
