[GOAL] Re: 114 million scholarly documents on the web; 27 million toll-free

2014-10-16 Thread Sally Morris
See article by Arif Jinha in Learned Publishing from 2010 - 50 million: an estimate of the number of scholarly articles in existence Jinha, Arif E http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/20100308 Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903

[GOAL] Re: Librarians, copyright and the IR

2014-09-29 Thread Sally Morris
manageable. However, since many journals are now 'hybrid' and include OA articles, I wonder if the administration side has evolved to keep pace? Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk

[GOAL] Re: Charles Oppenheim on who owns the rights to scholarlyarticles

2014-02-05 Thread Sally Morris
All this detail is contained in the report (Scholarly Publishing Practice 3, ALPSP, 2008 - http://www.alpsp.org/Ebusiness/ProductCatalog/Product.aspx?ID=44). It's free to ALPSP members, but others have to pay to access it. Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-16 Thread Sally Morris
Actually, as far as I can recall, the idea of 'hybrid journals' was first proposed by David Prosser of SPARC Europe in 2003, as a way for publishers to move towards 100% conversion to OA David will no doubt say if this is not so Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-14 Thread Sally Morris
, raise some worthwhile points... Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk _ From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Jean-Claude Guédon

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises CredibilityofBeall's List

2013-12-12 Thread Sally Morris
What I'm saying is that OA may have done itself a disservice by adhering so rigidly to tight definitions. A more relaxed focus on the end rather than the means might prove more appealing to the scholars for whose benefit it is supposed to exist Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly CompromisesCredibilityofBeall's List

2013-12-12 Thread Sally Morris
for those who need to read them, as I would perhaps more narrowly describe it) Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk _ From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility ofBeall's List

2013-12-10 Thread Sally Morris
of research available to those who need it; but I'm not convinced that OA (whether Green, Gold or any combination) will either. I think the solution, if there is one, still eludes us. Merry Christmas! Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU

[GOAL] Re: Pre-publication peer review (was: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List)

2013-12-10 Thread Sally Morris
Jan, you may well be right. Certainly we will have to give up some of what we hold dear (pun not intended!) in the old system, if scholarly communication to cope in future. The losses may be even more drastic - who knows? Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West

[GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits

2013-10-05 Thread Sally Morris
follow this principle when pricing subscriptions - I don't know of any publishers who price all their subscription journals the same). So what's odd about it? Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris

[GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits

2013-10-05 Thread Sally Morris
- they are what businesses (including nonprofits) need to keep going Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk _ From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org

[GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits

2013-10-05 Thread Sally Morris
Heather, if you look back over the thread you will see that I was responding to Dana Roth's posting about the variability of Hindawi's APCs. Nothing else Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris

[GOAL] Re: US Presidential Open Access Directive: 3 Cheers and 8 Suggestions

2013-02-25 Thread Sally Morris
and inserting the correct DOI was a time-consuming task. Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk -Original Message- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun

[GOAL] Re: Searching for OA vs. Providing OA

2013-01-05 Thread Sally Morris
Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk _ From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: 04 January 2013 23:19 To: Global Open

[GOAL] Re: Interview with Harvard's Stuart Shieber

2012-12-12 Thread Sally Morris
'Delayed OA' does not refer to Green (I've never heard it used that way), but rather to those journals which make all their content freely available after a delay - usually 6-12 months. Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903

[GOAL] Re: Interview with Harvard's Stuart Shieber

2012-12-12 Thread Sally Morris
This seems an odd usage of the term 'free at the point of use'. Surely all journals to which the user's library subscribes are that? Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk

[GOAL] Re: Squashing the brand? Re: Interview with the Scholarly Kitchen's Kent Anderson

2012-11-09 Thread Sally Morris
a 'journal' but I suspect that something that performs that function is still, and will continue to be, needed - in fact, more than ever as the sheer volume of articles continues to rise. Only time will tell! Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU

[GOAL] Puzzled - please help

2012-11-06 Thread Sally Morris
the spectacular difference between the two sets of figures - can someone please explain? I can't believe that inclusion/exclusion in Scopus can possibly account for it. Am I missing something? Thanks Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel

[GOAL] Re: Gold OA: Publication costs and journal impact factors

2012-10-12 Thread Sally Morris
or no IF journals. Accepted articles have to bear a share of the costs of processing these articles up to the point of rejection. Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk

[GOAL] Re: Europe PubMed as a home for all RCUK research outputs?

2012-10-09 Thread Sally Morris
authors really want). I understand ALPSP are currently repeating the study, so we may soon know if these trends have continued - I'd be amazed if they have not. Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris

[GOAL] Re: Europe PubMed as a home for all RCUK research outputs?

2012-10-09 Thread Sally Morris
://www.publishingresearch.net/author_rights.htm) Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk _ From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Ross Mounce Sent

[GOAL] Re: Europe PubMed as a home for all RCUK research outputs?

2012-10-09 Thread Sally Morris
I was CEO of ALPSP at the time, and the Association did indeed pay for the research - and it was (for us) a substantial outlay Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk

[GOAL] Re: Europe PubMed as a home for all RCUK research outputs?

2012-10-09 Thread Sally Morris
Cox Cox's original study are as follows: 'In 2003, 83% of publishers required copyright transfer, in 2005 the figure stood at 61%. In 2008 this has dropped to 53%, and those which only require a licence to publish has increased from 17% to 20.8%.' I hope this helps Sally Sally Morris South

[GOAL] Re: Open Access in the UK: Reinventing the Big Deal

2012-10-07 Thread Sally Morris
. The selection of articles for publication in journal X is a relative matter; not just 'is the research soundly conducted and honestly reported?' but 'is it of sufficient relevance, interest and value to our readers in particular?' Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing

[GOAL] Re: Open Access in the UK: Reinventing the Big Deal

2012-10-07 Thread Sally Morris
providers. That doesn't mean to say there isn't a fantastic new model out there - I certainly hope there is! But personally I don't think Green OA is it. Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris

[GOAL] Re: Definition of OA and its Priorities and Obstacles

2012-08-29 Thread Sally Morris
, but are not going to change the way that most people understand and use the term. Does that actually matter? I don't think so! Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk _ From

[GOAL] Re: Publications managed byscholarly communities/institutions

2012-08-09 Thread Sally Morris
These are all examples of the 'fairy godmother' payment model Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk _ From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun

[GOAL] Re: Publications managed byscholarly communities/institutions

2012-08-09 Thread Sally Morris
reviewers. Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk _ From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of David Prosser Sent: 09 August 2012 12:08

[GOAL] Re: Planning for the Open Access Era

2012-08-07 Thread Sally Morris
disappear). I can only see three options for who pays: reader-side (e.g. the library); author-side (e.g. publication fees); or 'fairy godmother' (e.g. sponsor). Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa

[GOAL] Re: Planning for the Open Access Era

2012-08-07 Thread Sally Morris
Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk _ From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Peter Murray-Rust Sent: 07 August 2012 15:12 To: Global

[GOAL] Re: Update on Ulrichs estimate of total number of active peer-reviewed journals: 55, 311

2012-08-03 Thread Sally Morris
I find this figure very surprising. What appears to be the same search, carried out this past March, came up with a (to me) much more credible figure of 27,566. Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa

[GOAL] Re: Agreement on Green OA not needed from publishers but from institutions and funders

2012-06-20 Thread Sally Morris
? Can't we grow up and have a rather more reasoned discussion? Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk _ From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier's query re: positive things from publishersthat should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized

2012-05-16 Thread Sally Morris
for it. If the uptake was anywhere near 100%, no doubt the publishers would make the journals fully Gold OA. However, it's my understanding that it's much, much lower Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris

[GOAL] Re: Meaning of OA Libre

2012-05-09 Thread Sally Morris
Aye, there's the rub.  Open just means open - in my opinion it is futile (and unnecessary) to insist on a strict definition   The main objective is that anyone who wishes to should be able to read the item.  All the rest, IMHO, is extra     Sally   Sally Morris South House, The Street

[GOAL] Re: Libre open access, copyright, patent law, and other intellectual property matters

2012-03-25 Thread Sally Morris
Playing devil's advocate: aren't people (arguably) paying for the service provided in gathering together the articles in which they might be interested in an easily accessible/searchable form? Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44

[GOAL] Re: Libre open access, copyright, patent law, and other intellectual property matters

2012-03-25 Thread Sally Morris
Playing devil's advocate:  aren't people (arguably) paying for the service provided in gathering together the articles in which they might be interested in an easily accessible/searchable form?   Sally   Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK  BN13 3UU Tel:Â

Re: Fool's Gold Journal Spam

2011-11-02 Thread Sally Morris
Surely authors have exactly the same freedom under the subscription model?   Sally   Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK  BN13 3UU Tel:  +44 (0)1903 871286 Email:  sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk Â

Re: Rights Reductio Ad Absurdum

2011-01-11 Thread Sally Morris
I can confirm this - I have also obtained their licence alternative it on request (since my article was about a model 'Licence to Publish' I could hardly have done otherwise!)   Sally     Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK  BN13 3UU Tel:  +44 (0)1903

Re: Repository effectiveness

2010-09-20 Thread Sally Morris
. 'Too difficult' was not mentioned at all Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk -Original Message- From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist

Re: Mandates: Practical Questions

2010-09-02 Thread Sally Morris
When I looked at OA journals a few years ago I found that (a) they tended to publish very little and (b) they seemed much more likely to disappear or wither on the vine Sally When is a journal not a journal? A closer look at the DOAJ. Sally Morris, Learned Publishing Vol 19: 1, pp73-6, Jan

Re: Please share your opinion on open access publishing

2010-05-14 Thread Sally Morris
Sally Morris -Original Message- From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Andrew A. Adams Sent: 13 May 2010 12:15 To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: FWD: Please share

Re: Roundtable Press Release (Access to Research Results)

2010-01-19 Thread Sally Morris
Couture Sent: 18 January 2010 16:25 To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re: Roundtable Press Release (Access to Research Results) On 17-Jan-10, at 2:39 PM, Sally Morris wrote: Those who look beyond the abstract will find that we did, indeed, ask where

Re: Roundtable Press Release (Access to Research Results)

2010-01-17 Thread Sally Morris
Those who look beyond the abstract will find that we did, indeed, ask where they looked for articles Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk -Original Message- From: American

Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-10-31 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
Since when was solar and wind energy free (any more than quality-controlled and value-added research literature!)? Sally Sally Morris Partner, Morris Associates - Publishing Consultancy South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Email: sa

Re: Research: Writ, Reason, and Practice

2009-08-05 Thread Sally Morris
In our own study (see http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/2009308), anxieties about copyright were mentioned by just under 3% of those who gave their views for or against self-archiving.  Quality concerns and version proliferation were much more commonly mentioned   Sally     Sally Morris   South

Re: OA in High Energy Physics Arxiv Yields Five-Fold Citation Advantage

2009-07-22 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
refers... ;-) Sally Sally Morris Partner, Morris Associates - Publishing Consultancy South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701 202806 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk -Original Message- From: American Scientist

Re: Green OA, Subscriptions, and Evidence

2009-07-22 Thread Sally Morris
My point was going back to discussion of the Gentil-Beccot article itself   Sally   Sally Morris   South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK   Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701 202806 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk

Re: OA in High Energy Physics Arxiv Yields Five-Fold Citation Advantage

2009-07-21 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
seem that they still preferentially use the journals for older articles. Sally Sally Morris Partner, Morris Associates - Publishing Consultancy South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701 202806 Email: sa...@morris

Re: OA in High Energy Physics Arxiv Yields Five-Fold Citation Advantage

2009-07-21 Thread Sally Morris
in the face, but whether or not green OA does, in the end, damage subscription journals, of course, only time will tell. Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701 202806 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk

Re: OA in High Energy Physics Arxiv Yields Five-Fold Citation Advantage

2009-07-20 Thread Sally Morris
, that is what will eventually happen Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701 202806 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk -Original Message- From: American Scientist Open Access Forum

Re: OA in High Energy Physics Arxiv Yields Five-Fold Citation Advantage

2009-07-20 Thread Sally Morris
Stevan is, I'm sure, well aware that IOP at least has claimed that point (2) is erroneous and that it was misquoted by Swan Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701 202806 Email: sa...@morris

Re: Submission Fees (was: RE: Overlay Journals Over Again...)

2009-07-06 Thread Sally Morris
There are other strategies, too - in the case of Learned Publishing, which I edit, rather than reducing the price we are adding extra pages without increasing the price. Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0

Re: Submission Fees (was: RE: Overlay Journals Over Again...)

2009-07-06 Thread Sally Morris
In the study of learned societies that Sue Thorn, Ron Fraser and I reported in Serials (http://dx.doi.org/10.1629/2239), the 17 learned societies studied had an average uptake of 1.35% Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel: +44(0)1903

Re: The Beginning of Institutional Repositories

2009-06-25 Thread Sally Morris
, but they are not paid anything nor are they required to do anything, as far as I am aware Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701 202806 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk -Original Message

Re: The Beginning of Institutional Repositories

2009-06-24 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
That's what they told Alma. It is not, however, what they are doing so far Sally Sally Morris Partner, Morris Associates - Publishing Consultancy South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701 202806 Email: sa...@morris

Re: The Beginning of Institutional Repositories

2009-06-23 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
The perceived necessity for institutional and other mandates does, in a sense, reflect a failing - that researchers simply do not see 'what is in it for them' and therefore do not, by and large, deposit voluntarily. What this tells us is an interesting question Sally Sally Morris Partner

Re: The ROARMAP database of Open Access policies

2009-06-04 Thread Sally Morris
When I consulted ROARMAP yesterday, many policies (including Southampton's own) were not accessible, although there were from Google's cached version... I hope this is a temporary glitch?   Sally     Sally Morris   South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK

Re: Changes in publisher policies on repository deposit?

2009-06-02 Thread Sally Morris
Let me be heretical here   In this interconnected environment, why does it matter where the freely accessible version is?   Sally     Sally Morris   South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK   Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701 202806 Email: sa

Re: Elsevier's fake journal scandal

2009-05-20 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
I was responding to Colin Smith's (IMHO, incorrect) assertion below, not to the original situation (which was not a genuine launch of new journals, by anyone's reckoning)   Sally   Sally Morris Partner, Morris Associates - Publishing Consultancy   South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing

Re: Kathryn Sutherland's Attack on OA in the THES

2009-05-15 Thread Sally Morris
accordingly)?  New journals take years to make any money, even if they succeed - and not all do   Sally   Sally Morris   South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK   Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701 202806 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk

Re: Kathryn Suhterland's Attack on OA in the THE

2009-05-11 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
growth (not 'explosion') of research articles - it simply reflects growth in research funding, and thus number of researchers. In addition, plagiarism checking for journal articles (not just OA) is already a reality. Sally Sally Morris Partner, Morris Associates - Publishing Consultancy South

Re: [SOAF] Another Winning Article From OA's Chronicler and Conscience: Richard Poynder

2009-03-13 Thread Sally Morris
if you were obliged to do so is the same as actually wanting it (or even necessarily understanding it)   Sally     Sally Morris   South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK   Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701 202806 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk

Re: Fair-Use/Schmair-Use...

2009-02-15 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
)   Sally     Sally Morris Partner, Morris Associates - Publishing Consultancy   South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK   Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701 202806 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk

Re: Copright rarely exclusive

2009-02-15 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
now do not require a written agreement at all... Sally Sally Morris Partner, Morris Associates - Publishing Consultancy South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701 202806 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk -Original Message

Re: The fundamental importance of capturing cited-reference metadata in Institutional Repository deposits

2009-01-23 Thread Sally Morris
If CrossRef's SimpleTextQuery can parse any standard reference format, so presumably could repositories?   Sally       Sally Morris Editor-in-Chief, Learned Publishing   South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK   Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701

Re: STM Publisher Briefing on Institution Repository Deposit Mandates

2009-01-21 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
There were questions about how they accessed copies of articles.  However, the question we're discussing related specifically to the situation where they did NOT have access to the published version   Sally     Sally Morris Partner, Morris Associates - Publishing Consultancy   South House

Re: STM Publisher Briefing on Institution Repository Deposit Mandates

2009-01-20 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
://www.bsf.ac.uk/journals/BSF_survey_report_July_2008_FINAL.pdf) Sally Sally Morris Partner, Morris Associates - Publishing Consultancy South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701 202806 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk

Re: STM Publisher Briefing on Institution Repository Deposit Mandates

2009-01-20 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
    Sally Morris Partner, Morris Associates - Publishing Consultancy   South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK   Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701 202806 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk

Re: STM Publisher Briefing on Institution Repository Deposit Mandates

2009-01-20 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
    Sally Morris Partner, Morris Associates - Publishing Consultancy   South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK   Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701 202806 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk

RE: STM Publisher Briefing on Institution Repository Deposit Mandates

2009-01-19 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
Athens, Ovid, Science Direct and ISI Web of Science/Web of Knowledge. Sally Morris Partner, Morris Associates - Publishing Consultancy South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk -Original Message- From: owner-liblicens

Re: Comparing Physicists' Central and Institutional Self-archiving Practices at Southampton

2009-01-05 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
Did the researchers ask physicists why they did or didn't use one or the other repository?  If they did not (and the abstract only talks about correlation), then Stevan's explanation is pure speculation, surely?   Sally   Sally Morris Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy

Re: Comparing Physicists' Central and Institutional Self-archiving Practices at Southampton

2009-01-05 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
, because they neither wish to change their longstanding locus of deposit, nor do they wish to double-deposit.   ... was a bit misleading, as the study itself asked, and thus found, nothing about the `because'...   Hardly worth prolonging this!   Happy New Year   Sally       Sally Morris

Re: Alma Swan on Reasons researchers really rate repositories

2008-11-04 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
.    I hope to publish an article on the findings early next year.   Sally   PS I really don't want to hear why anyone on this list thinks the respondents were wrong - I'm just reporting facts!       Sally Morris Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy) South House, The Street

Re: Withdrawal from Open Access

2008-10-28 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
, and in that case to replace it with an explanation for the withdrawal Sally Sally Morris Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy) South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701 202806 Email: sa...@morris

FW: Liblicense-l: rules of the road

2008-10-23 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
Here's a set of 'rules' for another email discussion forum, one which I personally think is moderated in an exemplary fashion Sally (Forwarding with Ann's permission) Sally Morris Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy) South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13

Result of Moderator vote

2008-10-17 Thread Sally Morris
continue to post to the list, rather than to moderate it, but I have nevertheless counted their votes as being for/against Stevan's continuation as moderator.   The votes were nearly four to one (79.5% to 20.5%) in favour of Stevan's remaining in post as moderator.   Sally     Sally Morris South

Re: Google/Google Scholar merge?

2008-10-17 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
Puzzled by Les's posting - Google Scholar already identifies 'green' sources of documents, doesn't it? Sally Sally Morris Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy) South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701 202806

Re: Call for a vote of nonconfidence in the moderator of the AmSci Forum

2008-10-13 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
will not do so) or (b) whether Stevan should cease to participate in the list - this has never been proposed and indeed there would be precious few postings without him. If you had misunderstood what you were voting about and want to change your vote, in either direction, just let me know Sally Sally

Re: Brisbane declaration on Open Access (fwd)

2008-10-09 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
Perhaps it's worth just pointing out that the Version of Record is not necessarily in PDF format   Sally     Sally Morris Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy) South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel:  +44(0)1903 871286 Fax:  +44(0)8701

Re: American Scientist Open Access Forum settings

2008-10-07 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
For what it's worth, so do I   Sally     Sally Morris Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy) South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel:  +44(0)1903 871286 Fax:  +44(0)8701 202806 Email:  sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk

Re: Call for a vote of nonconfidence in the moderator of the AmSci Forum

2008-10-07 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
vis-à-vis other list members. Then we could see whether list members find it better, worse, or no different I for one would nominate Charles Oppenheim, if he's willing to take on the role Sally Sally Morris Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy) South House, The Street Clapham

RE: Jean-Claude Gu�don is wrong, and so is Zinath Rehana

2008-10-06 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
List readers will have seen the positive comments on Stevan's moderation of the list   I am worried, however, about whether negative comments are being censored.  Mine was   Sally     Sally Morris Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy) South House, The Street Clapham

RE: Jean-Claude Gu�don is wrong, and so is Zinath Rehana

2008-10-06 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
Apologies - I have no idea why my own original posting on the matter did not appear on my own computer Sally Sally Morris Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy) South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701 202806

Re: Censorship

2008-10-03 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
It seems pertinent to ask why my own posting on the subject has not been forwarded to the list... Sally Sally Morris Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy) South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701 202806 Email

Re: Nihil obstat

2008-10-02 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
if you refrained from doing so! Posting messages only with your own commentary could, indeed, be seen as a form of censorship (though I wouldn't put it that strongly) Sally Sally Morris Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy) South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex

Re: Author's final draft and citing

2008-10-01 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
It would serve everyone's interests for the terminology used to be both logical and consistent; there is no 'pro-publisher' agenda, hidden or otherwise, in the NISO recommendations as a quick look at the list of those involved will show Sally Sally Morris Consultant, Morris Associates

Re: OA in developing countries

2007-11-22 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
of sense - many more bangs for exactly the same bucks! Sally Sally Morris Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy) South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701 202806 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk

Re: Bibliometric Distortion: The Babblarazzi Are At It Again...

2007-11-12 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
One of the advantages to everyone of the 'author-side payment' model of OA publishing is that it will discourage 'salami-slicing' - getting more articles than necessary out of a single piece of research Sally Sally Morris Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy) South House

Re: ALPSP Response to RCUK Policy Proposal

2005-07-04 Thread Sally Morris (ALPSP)
; I chose my words with care! Wellcome on the other hand is, as I understand it, talking about the date of deposit. Sally Sally Morris, Chief Executive Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel: +44 (0

Survey of DOAJ journals

2005-02-21 Thread Sally Morris (ALPSP)
journals (launched at any time in the past 7 years). I think the publishers themselves would need to supply this information and I'd be very grateful for any such. Many thanks in advance for your help! Sally Sally Morris, Chief Executive Association of Learned and Professional Society

Re: Evolving Publisher Copyright Policies On Self-Archiving

2004-12-04 Thread Sally Morris
functionality, which is the only version which should properly be cited) may be found. Sally Sally Morris, Chief Executive Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Phone: +44 (0)1903 871686 Fax: +44 (0)1903

Re: ALPSP Survey: Over 60% of Journal Publishers Are Already Green

2004-04-01 Thread Sally Morris (ALPSP)
)? Cox, J. Cox, L. (2003) Scholarly Publishing Practice: The ALPSP report on academic publishers' policies and practices in online publishing. Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers. http://www.alpsp.org/2004pdfs/SFpub210104.pdf Sally Morris - List-Post: goal

Re: The Economics of Open Access Journal Publishing

2004-03-24 Thread Sally Morris (ALPSP)
are ignored/absorbed by the home institution. Is it, however, an approach which is scaleable for the literature as a whole? Sally Morris, Chief Executive Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Phone: +44 (0

Re: Invoking Cloture (Again) on Serials Crisis = Library Underfunding

2004-02-17 Thread Sally Morris (ALPSP)
The words 'mote' and 'beam' spring to mind... ;-) Sally NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS - PLEASE UPDATE YOUR RECORDS. THANKS! Sally Morris, Chief Executive Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Phone: +44 (0

Re: Open Access Does Not require Republishing and Reprinting Rights

2004-01-16 Thread Sally Morris
It might be possible to take this distinction into account in our data analysis - thanks for the suggestion Sally NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS - PLEASE UPDATE YOUR RECORDS. THANKS! Sally Morris, Chief Executive Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers South House, The Street

Re: Open Access Does Not require Republishing and Reprinting Rights

2004-01-16 Thread Sally Morris
This information is slightly out of date - Copyright in the US no longer has to be registered (although many people still recommend registration as an additional safeguard) Sally NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS - PLEASE UPDATE YOUR RECORDS. THANKS! Sally Morris, Chief Executive Association of Learned

Re: UK Select Committee Inquiry into Scientific Publication

2004-01-12 Thread Sally Morris
EMAIL ADDRESS - PLEASE UPDATE YOUR RECORDS. THANKS! Sally Morris, Chief Executive Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Phone: +44 (0)1903 871686 Fax: +44 (0)1903 871457 E-mail: chief-e...@alpsp.org ALPSP

ALPSP Open Access journals data analysis project

2004-01-10 Thread Sally Morris
for this project. I would also be delighted to hear from additional publishers who would be willing to share their data with the selected researcher. Sally NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS - PLEASE UPDATE YOUR RECORDS. THANKS! Sally Morris, Chief Executive Association of Learned and Professional Society

Re: Free Access vs. Open Access

2003-12-31 Thread Sally Morris
) *Deposit in a specific type of archive Am I alone in seeing it this way? Sally NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS - PLEASE UPDATE YOUR RECORDS. THANKS! Sally Morris, Chief Executive Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU

Re: Free Access vs. Open Access

2003-12-29 Thread Sally Morris
- and if they recover more from other sources, they will not need to ask authors to pay so much. Sally NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS - PLEASE UPDATE YOUR RECORDS. THANKS! Sally Morris, Chief Executive Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing

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