Dear all,
thanks a lot to Ross for pointing us to PURE. Of course (by now!) most institutions are using PURE as a CRIS not as a repository. But in the end it is the same as it is with dropbox, googledocs or mendeley: they all are offering seductive functionalities needed by scholars or people from university administrations. Facing declining budegts it may only be a matter of time until university administrations will start to question the sense of running a CRS *and* a repository - especially if the CRIS (as PURE does) offers IR-functionalities. Best regards Ulrich Herb ----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----- Hi Jessica (et al.), I guess it depends which list you read. Elsevier's own list boasts over 200 PURE implementations at different institutions including 28 in the UK: https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/pure/who-uses-pure/clients Even Elsevier's list isn't complete. I know for a fact that for instance that the University of Bath uses PURE http://www.bath.ac.uk/ris/pure/ and yet this doesnt appear on Elsevier's list, nor OpenDOAR. OpenDOAR is a registry run by people with close links to EPrints & DSpace. It's no surprise then that EPrints and DSpace are well registered within OpenDOAR. Time to remove the blinkers. PURE is much more prevalent than you'd think from a glance at OpenDOAR. On 18 May 2016 at 13:08, Jessica Lindholm <jessica.lindh...@chalmers.se> wrote: > Hi Ross (et al.), > > Out of curiosity I had to check the amount of Pure instances as you > mentioned that many institutional repositories run on Pure. > > > > Checking openDOAR’s registry of repositories (http://www.opendoar.org/) I > find 16 PURE-repositories listed, whereas e.g. Eprints has +400 instances > and DSpace has +1300 instances. However I am not at all sure to what degree > openDOAR is containing exhaustive data (or rather I am quite sure it > doesn’t) -it is either lacking data about PURE instances – or if not, I do > not agree that they are many.. > > > > Regards > > Jessica Lindholm > > > > > > *From:* goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] *On > Behalf Of *Ross Mounce > *Sent:* den 17 maj 2016 22:54 > *To:* Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <goal@eprints.org> > *Subject:* Re: [GOAL] Re : Re: SSRN Sellout to Elsevier > > > > Elsevier have actually done a really good job of > infiltrating institutional repositories too: > > > http://rossmounce.co.uk/2013/01/25/elseviers-growing-monopoly-of-ip-in-academia/ > > > > They bought Atira back in 2012 which created PURE which is the software > that many of world's institutional repositories run on. > > I presume it reports back all information to Elsevier so they can further > monetise academic IP. > > > > Best, > > > > Ross > > > > > > > > > > On 17 May 2016 at 21:22, Joachim SCHOPFEL <joachim.schop...@univ-lille3.fr> > wrote: > > Uh - "the distributed network of Green institutional repositories > worldwide is not for sale"? Not so sure - the green institutional > repositories can be replaced by other solutions, can't they ? Better > solutions, more functionalities, more added value, more efficient, better > connected to databases and gold/hybrid journals etc. > > > > ----- Mail d'origine ----- > De: Stevan Harnad <amscifo...@gmail.com> > À: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <goal@eprints.org> > Envoyé: Tue, 17 May 2016 17:03:18 +0200 (CEST) > Objet: Re: [GOAL] SSRN Sellout to Elsevier > > > > Shame on SSRN. > > > > Of course we know exactly why Elsevier acquired SSRN (and Mendeley): > > > > It's to retain their stranglehold over a domain (peer-reviewed > scholarly/scientific research publishing) in which they are no longer > needed, and in which they would not even have been able to gain as much as > a foothold if it had been born digital, instead of being inherited as a > legacy from an obsolete Gutenberg era. > > > > I don't know about Arxiv (needless centralization and its concentrated > expenses are always vulnerabe to faux-benign take-overs) but what's sure is > that the distributed network of Green institutional repositories worldwide > is not for sale, and that is their strength... > > > > Stevan Harnad > > > > > > > > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Bo-Christer Björk < > bo-christer.bj...@hanken.fi> wrote: > > This is an interesting news item which should interest the > readers of this list. Let's hope arXiv is not for sale. > > Bo-Christer Björk > > > > > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > > *Subject:* > > Message from Mike Jensen, SSRN Chairman > > *Date:* > > Tue, 17 May 2016 07:40:29 -0400 (EDT) > > *From:* > > Michael C. Jensen <ad...@ssrn.com> <ad...@ssrn.com> > > *Reply-To:* > > supp...@ssrn.com > > *To:* > > bo-christer.bj...@hanken.fi > > > > > > [image: Web Bug from > http://hq.ssrn.com/GroupProcesses/TrackEmailOpening.cfm?partid=2338421&corid=4024&runid=15740] > > [image: http://papers.ssrn.com/Organizations/images/ihp_ssrnlogo.png] > <http://hq.ssrn.com/GroupProcesses/RedirectClick.cfm?partid=2338421&corid=4024&runid=15740&url=http://www.ssrn.com> > > [image: http://static.ssrn.com/Images/Header/socialnew.gif] > > > > > > Dear SSRN Authors, > > > > > SSRN announced today that it has changed ownership. SSRN is > joining Mendeley <https://www.mendeley.com/?signout> and Elsevier > <https://www.elsevier.com> > to coordinate our development and delivery of new products and > services, and we look forward to our new access to data, products, > and additional resources that this change facilitates. (See Gregg > Gordon’s Elsevier > Connect > <https://www.elsevier.com/connect/ssrn-the-leading-social-science-and-humanities-repository-and-online-community-joins-elsevier> > post) > > > > > Like SSRN, Mendeley and Elsevier are focused on creating tools > that enhance researcher workflow and productivity. SSRN has been > at the forefront of on-line sharing of working papers. We are > committed to continue our innovation and this change will enable > that to happen more quickly. SSRN will benefit from access to the > vast new data and resources available, including Mendeley’s > reference management and personal library management tools, their > new researcher profile capabilities, and social networking > features. Importantly, we will also have new access for SSRN > members to authoritative performance measurement tools such as > those powered by Scopus <https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus> and > Newsflo > <http://hq.ssrn.com/GroupProcesses/RedirectClick.cfm?partid=2338421&corid=4024&runid=15740&url=http://www.newsflo.net> > (a global media tracking tool). In addition, SSRN, Mendeley and > Elsevier together can cooperatively build bridges to close the > divide between the previously separate worlds and workflows of > working papers and published papers. > > > > > We realize that this change may create some concerns about the > intentions of a legacy publisher acquiring an open-access working > paper repository. I shared this concern. But after much discussion > about this matter and others in determining if Mendeley and > Elsevier would be a good home for SSRN, I am convinced that they > would be good stewards of our mission. And our copyright policies > are not in conflict -- our policy has always been to host only > papers that do not infringe on copyrights. I expect we will have > some conflicts as we align our interests, but I believe those will > be surmountable. > > > > > Until recently I was convinced that the SSRN community was best > served being a stand-alone entity. But in evaluating our future in > the evolving landscape, I came to believe that SSRN would benefit > from being more interconnected and with the resources available > from a larger organization. For example, there is scale in systems > administration and security, and SSRN can provide more value to > users with access to more data and resources. > > > > > On a personal note, it has been an honor to be involved over the > past 25 years in the founding and growth of the SSRN website and > the incredible community of authors, researchers and institutions > that has made this all possible. I consider it one of my great > accomplishments in life. The community would not have been > successful without the commitment of so many of you who have > contributed in so many ways. I am proud of the community we have > created, and I invite you to continue your involvement and support > in this effort. > > > > > The staff at SSRN are all staying (including Gregg Gordon, CEO and > myself), the Rochester office is still in place, it will still be > free to upload and download papers, and we remain committed to > “Tomorrow’s Research Today”. I look forward to and am committed to > a successful transition and to another great 25 years for the SSRN > community that rivals the first. > > > > > Michael C. 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