On 2013-11-13, at 6:54 AM, "Denkinson, Grant" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stevan Harnad writes; >> For Arxiv, institutional repositories can import instead of export. > > Can we harvest papers from ArXiv? > > http://arxiv.org/help/bulk_data has: > Note: Most articles submitted to arXiv are submitted with the default arXiv > license > which grants arXiv a perpetual, non-exclusive license to distribute the > article but > does not assign copyright to arXiv, nor grant arXiv the right to grant any > specific > rights to others. We are thus unable to grant others the right to distribute > arXiv > articles. If you build indexes or tools based on the full-text you must link > back > to arXiv for downloads. A small fraction of submissions are made with other > licenses and this information is available in the OAI-PMH metadata. > > So if a paper from our university is on ArXiv can we put it in our > institutional > repository on behalf of the author? Of course. Or, if you feel timid: just import the metadata and point the URL to Arxiv. OA is OA. Deposit locus only matters for making mandates work. (You can collect the full text a few years later, when all the superfluous fuss and confusion have subsided and mandatory global Green OA has prevailed…) Stevan Harnad _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
