[GOAL] Re: Google's role in sustaining the public good to research parallel to developments in open access?

2012-07-13 Thread Les A Carr
It is easy to forget that they are a commercial company and not an official part of the web architecture. However, they are only a commercial company, and just one of the myriad web indexers that account for about 50% of the visits to any OA repository. They have contributed significant public

[GOAL] Re: Willett's Speech in Support of OA

2012-05-03 Thread Les A Carr
Some colleagues have a meeting with him next week. We're briefing them.  Sent from my iPhone On 3 May 2012, at 08:57, CHARLES OPPENHEIM c.oppenh...@btinternet.com wrote: An excellent suggestion from Andrew.  Who would be willing to approach Willetts to set up a meeting? Charles

[GOAL] Re: Wikipedia founder to help in [UK] government's research scheme

2012-05-02 Thread Les A Carr
that OA in the UK could become a subset of the Open Data agenda. -- Les Carr On 2 May 2012, at 12:40, brent...@ulg.ac.be wrote: Sorry, but I disagree with this. I understand all the help that celebrities can bring to a cause, but the choice of the celebrity should be wise. In this case

[GOAL] Re: Les Carr's analyses of Mendeley on Repositoryman

2012-01-04 Thread Les A Carr
extension of #2). Its huge success is definitely slanted towards #1, and the hope is that there will be some kind of trickle-down towards #3 . -- Les Stevan Begin forwarded message: From: Les A Carr lac -- ecs.soton.ac.uk Date: January 3, 2012 11:24:40 AM EST Subject: Re: Mendeley

Re: ACM Announces Innovative Article Linking Service for Authors

2011-10-13 Thread Les A Carr
) it is complex and longwinded. So, 10/10 for effort, 4/10 for achievement in this initiative's current form. Having said that, I would love to have the opportunity to work with the ACM to automate this process at the institutional level in some way (and I am seeking routes to do that). -- Les Carr

Re: Organisation of Repository Managers?

2010-11-30 Thread Les A Carr
There is UKCoRR, an organisation of 200+ repository managers. http://www.ukcorr.org/ --- Les On 30/11/2010 00:42, Andrew A. Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp wrote: I gave a talk last week at a Digital Repository Foundation meeting in Japan. This is a group of (primarily) librarians involved in running