2008/2/18, Stevan Harnad :
> The ID/OA mandate is to *deposit* -- not to make OA. There are no legal
> strictures, for example, on Closed Access deposit.
That's right. But such a mandate is in the same way helpful like
convincing publishers that OA (= Open Access, not: Optional Access) is
great.
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Klaus Graf wrote:
> Stevan Harnad wrote:
>
> > The ID/OA mandate is to *deposit* -- not to make OA. There are no legal
> > strictures, for example, on Closed Access deposit.
>
> That's right. But such a mandate is in the same way helpful like
> convincing publishers that OA
Dear Thomas Krichel, dear all,
Göttingen University Press has watched the developments of GAP carefully from
the beginning on without being involved in it for some reasons. We are member
in the follow-up GAP association however.
Some points I would like to make:
a) GAP Works is an IT-supported ed
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Klaus Graf wrote:
> Here are my mantras:
> * There is poor empirical proof that mandates work.
Poor compared to what? Compared to the exception-free evidence that
non-mandates (invitations, recommendations, requests, encouragements,
incentives) *don't* work?
Yes, 38 mandates
Dear Klaus!
Thank You for making these observations!
Sometimes it's hard to breath when one reads
Harnads mechanical same answer to every problem.
Life is complicated without any easy solutions.
I think that Harnads advice for making peace in
Palestine, Afghanistan, Irak or Sudan would be
"put
2008/2/18, Stevan Harnad :
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Thomas Krichel wrote:
>
> > As Jean-Claude knows, I am a trained economist...
> >
> > Thus, here is what Jean and his gang should do: they should argue
> > that the university should cancel physics, mathematics,
> > computer science, economics j
I imagine that this is precisely why the Computer Science department
asked for the script to be written, to make sure that their pages will
no longer be out of date. The knock-on effect is that other departments
can get it too. I might add that it really isn't very hard to achieve,
and is a useful
Arthur & Thomas
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On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Thomas Krichel wrote:
> As Jean-Claude knows, I am a trained economist...
>
> Thus, here is what Jean and his gang should do: they should argue
> that the university should cancel physics, mathematics,
> computer science, economics journals (just to name a few
> where de
Jean-Claude Guédon writes
> As for funding, research is funded by governments and publishing should
> be made a part of research funding. Waving the fearful banner of
> unreliable government funding is totally gratuitous here
I am not waving the fearful banner of unreliable government funding
Jean-Claude Guédon writes
> It is hard to know if it differs from the GAP project when the URL
> Thomas gave us leads only to one page with an e-mail. Can you clarify,
> Thomas?
I am not a project insider, so I can't comment on the project's
(presumed) failure. Stefan Gradmann, or Eberhar
Thomas, what you actually wrote is
> Show me an archive, and a university, who will vouch that for a
> certain period, all that is in the IR with free full-text
> is a equivalent to the university's authors' total research
> papers in the same period. Does such a university exist?
Such a uni
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