[GOAL] Re: Open Access Priorities: Peer Access and Public Access

2012-04-28 Thread Stevan Harnad
is bound to understand and take on board. Funders such as the Wellcome Trust are already doing important work in that regard. Jan Velterop On 28 Apr 2012, at 14:24, Stevan Harnad wrote: The list of recommendations I made was strategic. The objective was to maximize OA deposits

[GOAL] Re: Open Access Priorities: Peer Access and Public Access

2012-04-28 Thread Stevan Harnad
about hypothetical public interest in accessing all peer-reviewed research, when the real public interest (and researcher interest) is known, and now only needs OA mandates from institutions and funders in order to meet it? Stevan Harnad On 28 Apr 2012, at 15:23, Stevan Harnad wrote: Jan

[GOAL] Open Access Priorities: Peer Access and Public Access

2012-04-27 Thread Stevan Harnad
that they provide OA. Stevan Harnad Enabling Open Scholarship http://www.openscholarship.org ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] Re: OA and NIH public access compliance and enforcement?

2012-04-26 Thread Stevan Harnad
From: Wise, Alicia (ELS-OXF) A.Wise at elsevier.com I suspect compliance enforcement may not be such an issue for NIH because so many publishers deposit on behalf of their authors. It's one of the ways publishers have constructively engaged with the NIH on implementation of its open access

[GOAL] Re: OA and NIH public access compliance and enforcement?

2012-04-24 Thread Stevan Harnad
mandates can ensure that the publications are made OA (especially if institutional repository deposit is designated as the sole mechanism for submitting research for annual institutional performance review). See http://bit.ly/institutionalOA Stevan Harnad On 2012-04-23, at 8:03 PM, LIBLICENSE

[GOAL] Re: Role of the Librarian in an Open Access world

2012-04-20 Thread Stevan Harnad
There is no Platinum Road to OA http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/6442.html (And the survey is pretty amateurish and slanted.) On 2012-04-20, at 10:28 AM, Beall, Jeffrey wrote: I have a quibble with one of the statements on the first page of this survey. It says, At

[GOAL] Re: Role of the Librarian in an Open Access world

2012-04-20 Thread Stevan Harnad
There is no Platinum Road to OA http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/6442.html (And the survey is pretty amateurish and slanted.) On 2012-04-20, at 10:28 AM, Beall, Jeffrey wrote: I have a quibble with one of the statements on the first page of this survey. It says,

[GOAL] Re: SUPPLEMENT to PMC UKPMC Should Harvest From Institutional Repositories

2012-04-14 Thread Stevan Harnad
institutional mandates.) Stevan Harnad On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Stevan Harnad amsciforum at gmail.com wrote: As Johanna McEntyre of EBI has raised an important series of questions about institutional deposit and institution-external harvesting (by PMC and UKPMC) versus direct

[GOAL] Re: SUPPLEMENT to PMC UKPMC Should Harvest From Institutional Repositories

2012-04-14 Thread Stevan Harnad
institutional mandates.) Stevan Harnad On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Stevan Harnad amscifo...@gmail.com wrote: As Johanna McEntyre of EBI has raised an important series of questions about institutional deposit and institution-external harvesting (by PMC and UKPMC) versus direct institution

[GOAL] Re: PMC UKPMC Should Harvest From Institutional Repositories

2012-04-13 Thread Stevan Harnad
of harvesting from IRs instead of requiring direct institution-external deposit. Stevan Harnad Jo McEntyre On Apr 12, 2012, at 12:05 PM, Stevan Harnad wrote: On 2012-04-12, at 5:44 AM, Steve Hitchcock wrote: Do we know why Pubmed does not apparently link to papers in IRs

[GOAL] PMC UKPMC Should Harvest From Institutional Repositories

2012-04-12 Thread Stevan Harnad
deposit. Stevan Harnad

[GOAL] PMC UKPMC Should Harvest From Institutional Repositories

2012-04-12 Thread Stevan Harnad
deposit. Stevan Harnad ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] Online Academic Abuses and the Power of Openness: Naming Shaming

2012-04-10 Thread Stevan Harnad
as exposable, they are likely to become their own deterrents.) http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5497.html Stevan Harnad On 2012-04-10, at 6:41 AM, Philip Davis wrote: Emergence of a Citation Cartel 10 April, 2012 The Scholarly Kitchen http://wp.me/pcvbl-6xS In a 1999 essay

[GOAL] Online Academic Abuses and the Power of Openness: Naming Shaming

2012-04-10 Thread Stevan Harnad
as exposable, they are likely to become their own deterrents.) http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5497.html Stevan Harnad On 2012-04-10, at 6:41 AM, Philip Davis wrote: Emergence of a Citation Cartel 10 April, 2012 The Scholarly Kitchen http://wp.me/pcvbl-6xS In a 1999 essay

[GOAL] Re: Open access to Dutch research stagnating

2012-04-02 Thread Stevan Harnad
/OA first: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/494-guid.html Stevan Harnad On 2012-04-02, at 5:42 AM, Kuil, van der Annemiek wrote: The message below has just been posted on the SURF website and might be of interest to you. Open access to Dutch research stagnating Higher

[GOAL] Re: Open access to Dutch research stagnating

2012-04-02 Thread Stevan Harnad
mandating ID/OA first: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/494-guid.html Stevan Harnad On 2012-04-02, at 5:42 AM, Kuil, van der Annemiek wrote: The message below has just been posted on the SURF website and might be of interest to you. Open access to Dutch research stagnating

[GOAL] Re: A bit of advice with regards to the history of the OA movement

2012-03-29 Thread Stevan Harnad
Dear CN: Where is Peter Suber (the primary drafter of the BOAI and the de facto leader of the OA movement) in your design? Best wishes, Stevan On 2012-03-28, at 5:02 PM, Constantinescu Nicolaie wrote: Dear friends, Some colleagues here in Romania asked me to put together a very brief

[GOAL] Why Public Access vs. Research Access Matters

2012-03-28 Thread Stevan Harnad
and their researchers that it is in their interest to mandate and provide open access. Stevan Harnad On 2012-03-27, at 7:40 AM, Stevan Harnad wrote: Bravo to Mike Rossner for his position statement in favor of OA mandate legislation. Everything he says is valid and true. (But it would be just

[GOAL] Re: Tireless Ad Hoc Critiques of OA Study After OA Study: Will Wishful Thinking Ever Cease?

2012-03-28 Thread Stevan Harnad
with the robot's estimate for the unmandated self-archiving rate. (The unmandated papers were not even necessarily self-archived in the author's instituitional repository: many were on their authors' personal or lab websites.) Stevan Harnad On 2012-03-22, at 4:20 PM, Stevan Harnad wrote: Comment

[GOAL] Re: Why Public Access vs. Research Access Matters

2012-03-28 Thread Stevan Harnad
and build upon is. (And no one said anyone was a second class citizen.) Peace. On 2012-03-28, at 4:18 PM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Stevan Harnad harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote: Some comments on Richard Poynder's interview of Mike Rossner in Open Shut http

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

2012-03-28 Thread Stevan Harnad
research institutions and funders), globally, now. They're long, long overdue; and research impact and progress keeps being wasted year in and year out while we keep worrying, pre-emptively, about secondary contingencies... Stevan Harnad ___ GOAL

[GOAL] Why Public Access vs. Research Access Matters

2012-03-28 Thread Stevan Harnad
and their researchers that it is in their interest to mandate and provide open access. Stevan Harnad On 2012-03-27, at 7:40 AM, Stevan Harnad wrote: Bravo to Mike Rossner for his position statement in favor of OA mandate legislation. Everything he says is valid and true. (But it would be just

[GOAL] Re: Tireless Ad Hoc Critiques of OA Study After OA Study: Will Wishful Thinking Ever Cease?

2012-03-28 Thread Stevan Harnad
with the robot's estimate for the unmandated self-archiving rate. (The unmandated papers were not even necessarily self-archived in the author's instituitional repository: many were on their authors' personal or lab websites.) Stevan Harnad On 2012-03-22, at 4:20 PM, Stevan Harnad wrote: Comment

[GOAL] Re: Tireless Ad Hoc Critiques of OA Study After OA Study: Will Wishful Thinking Ever Cease?

2012-03-23 Thread Stevan Harnad
could believe fervently in the journal affordability crisis while at the same time believing that their users can nevertheless get access to all they need one way or another...) Stevan Harnad

[GOAL] Estimating the True Costs of Gold Open Access Publishing

2012-03-20 Thread Stevan Harnad
Many estimates have been made of the true costs of Gold Open Access (OA) publishing (e.g., by Claudio Aspesi, in the discussion of Richard Poynder's recent article), but the estimates are rather arbitrary and unrealistic if the other causal factors that could raise or lower them are not

[GOAL] Re: Recent OA developments in Australia

2012-03-14 Thread Stevan Harnad
. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21818/ Stevan Harnad PS Apart from desperate and appallingly maladroit (and doomed) lobbying efforts with governments (and confidential bargaining efforts with customers) to try to deter or delay Green OA mandates, Elsevier has nothing to do with it, one way

[GOAL] Open Access Feedback

2012-03-14 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 2012-03-14, at 8:50 AM, Peter Suber wrote: The Research Councils UK are seeking public comments on their draft new OA policy. http://www.openscholarship.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2012-03/rcuk_proposed_policy_on_access_to_research_outputs.pdf Please send any comments to

[GOAL] 3-Year Success Signs for MIT's Green OA Mandate

2012-03-10 Thread Stevan Harnad
Three years after the adoption of its Green Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate -- http://roarmap.eprints.org/122/ -- MIT announces that its articles are being downloaded worldwide: http://libraries.mit.edu/sites/news/faculty-articles-2/7941/ (To draw any comparative conclusions, however,

[GOAL] Re: 3-Year Success Signs for MIT's Green OA Mandate

2012-03-10 Thread Stevan Harnad
rate, which will be posted soon, takes both the age and the strength of the mandate into account.) Stevan Harnad -Original Message- To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] 3-Year Success Signs for MIT's Green OA Mandate Three years after the adoption of its

[GOAL] Fwd:Next Steps in Open Access: Tell your Representatives to Support FRPAA

2012-03-01 Thread Stevan Harnad
https://plus.google.com/u/0/107980702132412632948/posts/a4DzVk9n7fG - CALL TO ACTION: Tell your Representatives to Support FRPAA

[GOAL] Fwd:Next Steps in Open Access: Tell your Representatives to Support FRPAA

2012-03-01 Thread Stevan Harnad
https://plus.google.com/u/0/107980702132412632948/posts/a4DzVk9n7fG - CALL TO ACTION: Tell your Representatives to Support FRPAA

[GOAL] OA Volunteerism, OA Mandates, and BOAI's First Decade

2012-02-17 Thread Stevan Harnad
anniversary meeting of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI-II). (There was no mention of mandates whatsoever in BOAI-I.) Stevan Harnad Reconstructed Archivangelist

[GOAL] {Disarmed} Re: Scoap3

2012-02-17 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 2012-02-17, at 6:36 AM, Raphael Ritz wrote: sorry if I'm spreading old news but I couldn't find any mention of this on the list so maybe people find this interesting: http://scoap3.org/ Here are some references to some prior discussions of scoap/scoap3: http://bit.ly/amsci-scoap

[GOAL] {Disarmed} Re: Google Scholar discoverability of repository content

2012-02-17 Thread Stevan Harnad
your metadata-only records while Google Scholar is looking for full-texts. Your GS/Google ratio will approximate how many of your records have an attached open access PDF (.doc etc). Sincerely, Tim Brody (EPrints Developer) On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 11:31 +, Stevan Harnad wrote: Can we

[GOAL] Re: Author's refereed, revised, accepted final draft vs. publisher's verison-of-record

2012-02-17 Thread Stevan Harnad
. All the rest is irrelevant, and just equivocation or question-begging. Stevan Harnad ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] OA Volunteerism, OA Mandates, and BOAI's First Decade

2012-02-17 Thread Stevan Harnad
anniversary meeting of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI-II). (There was no mention of mandates whatsoever in BOAI-I.) Stevan Harnad Reconstructed Archivangelist ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman

[GOAL] Fwd: Re: Google Scholar discoverability of repository content

2012-02-17 Thread Stevan Harnad
will index your metadata-only records while Google Scholar is looking for full-texts. Your GS/Google ratio will approximate how many of your records have an attached open access PDF (.doc etc). Sincerely, Tim Brody (EPrints Developer) On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 11:31 +, Stevan Harnad wrote: Can

[GOAL] [BOAI] Budapest Open Access Initiative anniversary (fwd)

2012-02-14 Thread Stevan Harnad
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:47:09 +0200 From: Iryna Kuchma iryna.kuc...@eifl.net Reply-To: boai-forum at ecs.soton.ac.uk To: boai-forum boai-forum at ecs.soton.ac.uk Subject: [BOAI] Budapest Open Access Initiative anniversary [Forwarded message from

[GOAL] [BOAI] Ten Years On, Researchers Embrace Open Access - Blog post re BOAI 10 on soros.org (fwd)

2012-02-14 Thread Stevan Harnad
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:30:25 +0200 From: Iryna Kuchma iryna.kuc...@eifl.net To: boai-forum boai-forum at ecs.soton.ac.uk Subject: [BOAI] Ten Years On, Researchers Embrace Open Access - Blog post re BOAI 10 on soros.org Blog post re BOAI 10 on

[GOAL] Author's refereed, revised, accepted final draft vs. publisher's version-of-record

2012-02-14 Thread Stevan Harnad
, but not the publisher's version of record. (The rest don't endorse any form of immediate OA.) Are we, in turn, going to endorse this mandate (which -- so far adopted by only 200 institutions -- needs all the help it can get) or are we going to continue debating the relative merits of that versus which? Stevan Harnad

[GOAL] [BOAI] Budapest Open Access Initiative anniversary (fwd)

2012-02-14 Thread Stevan Harnad
-- Forwarded message -- List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:47:09 +0200 From: Iryna Kuchma iryna.kuc...@eifl.net Reply-To: boai-fo...@ecs.soton.ac.uk To: boai-forum boai-fo...@ecs.soton.ac.uk Subject: [BOAI] Budapest Open Access

[GOAL] Fwd: [sparc-ir] Call to Action: Support the Bipartisan Federal Public Access Act

2012-02-14 Thread Stevan Harnad
-- Forwarded message -- From: Andrea Higginbotham and...@arl.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org Date: Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:36 PM Subject: [sparc-ir] Call to Action: Support the Bipartisan Federal Public Access Act To: SPARC IR sparc...@arl.org We have

[GOAL] [BOAI] Ten Years On, Researchers Embrace Open Access - Blog post re BOAI 10 on soros.org (fwd)

2012-02-14 Thread Stevan Harnad
-- Forwarded message -- List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:30:25 +0200 From: Iryna Kuchma iryna.kuc...@eifl.net To: boai-forum boai-fo...@ecs.soton.ac.uk Subject: [BOAI] Ten Years On, Researchers Embrace Open Access - Blog post

[GOAL] Re: Nice blog post on OA

2012-02-11 Thread Stevan Harnad
A HAPPIER ENDING: UNBUNDLING QUALITY CONTROL Mike Taylor's allegory is brilliant. But its pessimistic ending is not inevitable. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/feb/10/parable-farmers-teleporting-duplicator?CMP=twt_gu The distributors (journals) performed two functions in the

[GOAL] Re: Nice blog post on OA

2012-02-11 Thread Stevan Harnad
A HAPPIER ENDING: UNBUNDLING QUALITY CONTROL Mike Taylor's allegory is brilliant. But its pessimistic ending is not inevitable. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/feb/10/parable-farmers-teleporting-duplicator?CMP=twt_gu The distributors (journals) performed two functions in the

[GOAL] Re: Nice blog post on OA

2012-02-11 Thread Stevan Harnad
part of the debate recently. Best wishes David On 11 Feb 2012, at 14:31, Stevan Harnad wrote: A HAPPIER ENDING: UNBUNDLING QUALITY CONTROL Mike Taylor's allegory is brilliant. But its pessimistic ending is not inevitable. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/feb/10/parable-farmers

[GOAL] Re: A census of OA in the Netherlands

2012-02-10 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Gerritsma, Wouter Wouter.Gerritsma at wur.nl wrote: Stevan Mandated OA was announced early 2011 for Earsmus University Rotterdam. Unfortunately this has had no effect on deposit rates whatsoever, it is still one of the lowest deposit rates in Nl. Mandates

[GOAL] Re: Bullish Report on Elsevier, Pooh-Poohing Boycott Threats

2012-02-07 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:18 AM, Alicia L?pez Medina alopezm at pas.uned.es wrote: Mandates are needed but it is not enough if they are not accompanied by the change ofthe evaluation criteria of scientific production in the institution (ISI beeing the MOST important criteria for promotion) .

[GOAL] Re: Bullish Report on Elsevier, Pooh-Poohing Boycott Threats

2012-02-07 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:18 AM, Alicia López Medina alop...@pas.uned.es wrote: Mandates are needed but it is not enough if they are not accompanied by the change ofthe evaluation criteria of scientific production in the institution (ISI beeing the MOST important criteria for promotion) . It

[GOAL] Bullish Report on Elsevier, Pooh-Poohing Boycott Threats

2012-02-06 Thread Stevan Harnad
Bullish report on Elsevier, despite boycott threats. Now, enough of the hoopla, please, and let's get back to the only thing that really matters, concretely, for OA today: Institutions and funders mandating green OA self-archiving! Stevan Harnad Begin forwarded message: Forwarded

[GOAL] Bullish Report on Elsevier, Pooh-Poohing Boycott Threats

2012-02-06 Thread Stevan Harnad
Bullish report on Elsevier, despite boycott threats. Now, enough of the hoopla, please, and let's get back to the only thing that really matters, concretely, for OA today: Institutions and funders mandating green OA self-archiving! Stevan Harnad Begin forwarded message: Forwarded

[GOAL] Pogo: Why Are Researchers Yet Again Boycotting Instead of Keystroking?

2012-02-02 Thread Stevan Harnad
While the worldwide researcher community is again busy working itself up into an indignant lather with yet another publisher boycott threat, I am still haunted by a keystroke koan: Why did 34,000 researchers sign a threat in 2000 to boycott their journals unless those journals agreed to provide

[GOAL] Re: Gratis vs. Libre OA

2012-01-21 Thread Stevan Harnad
Forwarding a BOAI posting (with which I would fully agree!). -- Stevan Harnad Begin forwarded message: From: Andras Holl h...@konkoly.hu Date: January 21, 2012 10:08:49 AM EST To: boai-fo...@ecs.soton.ac.uk Hi, This is a delayed comment on a posting by Stevan Harnad, dated 18th december

[GOAL] Both Science and Nature disavow Research Works Act H.R. 3699

2012-01-19 Thread Stevan Harnad
Both Science (AAAS) and Nature have joined the publishes that have disavowed the (U.S.) Research Works Act (H. R. 3699) which would make it illegal for federal funding agencies to mandate (require) Green OA (self-archiving). (The Act is supported by the American Association of Publishers

[GOAL] Re: Research Works Act AAP Members

2012-01-19 Thread Stevan Harnad
to have access to no version at all rather than have access to a refereed final draft with a which where it should have a that...] Stevan Harnad From: Stevan Harnad har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:47:23 -0500 Sandy Thatcher wrote: a better approach... would be to require any

[GOAL] SPARC Announces New European Leadership

2012-01-19 Thread Stevan Harnad
Washington, DC and The Hague – In a move that completes a year-long strategic restructuring of SPARC’s operations in Europe, Dr. Alma Swan has been appointed to the position of Director of European Advocacy, and Lars Bjørnshauge has been named SPARC’s Director of European Library

[GOAL] Both Science and Nature disavow Research Works Act H.R. 3699

2012-01-19 Thread Stevan Harnad
Both Science (AAAS) and Nature have joined the publishes that have disavowed the (U.S.) Research Works Act (H. R. 3699) which would make it illegal for federal funding agencies to mandate (require) Green OA (self-archiving). (The Act is supported by the American Association of Publishers

[GOAL] Re: Research Works Act AAP Members

2012-01-19 Thread Stevan Harnad
be publicly available, but all data generated as a result of federal funding should also be publicly available. Easier said than done (because of the first-exploitation rights problem). But wouldn't it be too much of a burden for the poor researcher...? ;) Stevan Harnad

[GOAL] Re: Research Works Act AAP Members

2012-01-17 Thread Stevan Harnad
on their institutional or personal web sites. And RWA would prevent their funders from requiring them to do it. Stevan Harnad ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] Re: Peer review, OA, etc.

2012-01-12 Thread Stevan Harnad
Begin forwarded message [posted with permission]: On 2012-01-10, at 3:13 PM, Sandy Thatcher wrote: But the NIH-type mandate doesn't get you very far, does it? Just Green OA after 12 months. That's right, it doesn't get you very far, and it's a bad model for others to imitate (though it's

[GOAL] Re: Peer review, OA and the cost of it all

2012-01-12 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:50 AM, Jan Velterop velte...@gmail.com wrote: nowadays, peer review is the only remaining significant raison d’être of formal scientific publishing in journals... This much is certainly true: In the online era,of all the products and services bundled into the

[GOAL] Re: Peer review, OA, etc.

2012-01-12 Thread Stevan Harnad
Begin forwarded message [posted with permission]: On 2012-01-10, at 3:13 PM, Sandy Thatcher wrote: But the NIH-type mandate doesn't get you very far, does it? Just Green OA after 12 months. That's right, it doesn't get you very far, and it's a bad model for others to imitate (though it's

[GOAL] Re: Research Works Act H.R.3699: The Private Publishing Tail Trying Again To Wag The Public Research Dog

2012-01-11 Thread Stevan Harnad
-and-dumber-publishers.html With best wishes, Dominic Tate UKCoRR External Liaison Officer Phone: 01784 276619 Email: dominic.t...@rhul.ac.uk -Original Message- From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: 08 January

[GOAL] Research Works Act H.R.3699: The Private Publishing Tail Trying Again To Wag The Public Research Dog

2012-01-07 Thread Stevan Harnad
journal publishing plays in US research and development and its (public) funding…. Continued at: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/867-guid.html Stevan Harnad On Fri Jan 6 16:43:10, Jennifer McLennan wrote: Subject: [GOAL] Take Action: Oppose H.R. 3699, a new bill to block

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

2012-01-03 Thread Stevan Harnad
have detailed spreadsheets and can redo the analyses if they are interesting/useful. -- les On 24 Dec 2011, at 04:06, Stevan Harnad wrote: Arthur, Thanks for the data about Mendeley. I have a few questions about things I don't understand; 1.4 million people have downloaded

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

2012-01-03 Thread Stevan Harnad
that it has created... I have detailed spreadsheets and can redo the analyses if they are interesting/useful. -- les On 24 Dec 2011, at 04:06, Stevan Harnad wrote: Arthur, Thanks for the data about Mendeley. I have a few questions about things I don't understand; 1.4

[GOAL] Fwd: Harvard response to the White House RFI on OA to publicly funded research

2012-01-03 Thread Stevan Harnad
://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/865-guid.html and the Harvard response, below. Stevan Harnad -- Forwarded message -- From: Peter Suber peter.suber -- gmail.com List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org Date: Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:33 PM Friends: Here's the Harvard

[GOAL] Deadline Extended to Jan 12 for White House Public Access and Digital Data RFIs

2012-01-01 Thread Stevan Harnad
In November, OSTP issued two Requests for Information (RFI), one on open access to scientific publications and the other on the management of digital data. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/11/07/request-information-public-access-digital-data-and-scientific-publications Yesterday, responding to

[GOAL] Re: How many researchers are there?

2012-01-01 Thread Stevan Harnad
Some suggestions: (1) Estimate the total number of papers P published per year y, Py, rather than the number of researchers. (2) Start with the Thompson-Reuters-ISI-indexed (or SCOPUS-indexed) subset. (3) For Py, sample the web (Google Scholar) to see what percentage of it is freely available

[GOAL] Deadline Extended to Jan 12 for White House Public Access and Digital Data RFIs

2012-01-01 Thread Stevan Harnad
In November, OSTP issued two Requests for Information (RFI), one on open access to scientific publications and the other on the management of digital data. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/11/07/request-information-public-access-digital-data-and-scientific-publications Yesterday, responding to

[GOAL] Harnad Response to US OSTP RFI on Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications Resulting From Federally Funded Research

2011-12-31 Thread Stevan Harnad
Harnad, S. (2011) What Is To Be Done About Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications Resulting From Federally Funded Research? (Response to US OSTP RFI). Technical Report , Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. (Submitted to OSTP)

[GOAL] Re: Belgium: Funder's Green OA mandate for 2013

2011-12-29 Thread Stevan Harnad
their institutional and funder mandates convergent and mutually reinforcing. http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/369-guid.html Stevan Harnad On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:01 AM, brent...@ulg.ac.be wrote: Dear Thierry, In the French speaking community of Belgium (also called the Wallonia-Brussels

[GOAL] Re: Titanium Killer Apps and OA

2011-12-23 Thread Stevan Harnad
Technology, whereas I am for directing advocacy efforts at promoting the adoption of Green OA mandates (because I do not believe any form of voluntarism will get us to 100% OA anywhere near as quickly and surely as mandates). Stevan Harnad [ Part 2: Attached Text

[GOAL] Re: Belgium: Funder's Green OA mandate for 2013

2011-12-23 Thread Stevan Harnad
Mandate Now: Deposit Institutionally, Harvest Centrally Optimizing OA Self-Archiving Mandates: What? Where? When? Why? How? Which Green OA Mandate Is Optimal? Stevan Harnad Bernard RENTIER Rector of the Université de Liège Vice-President of the FRS-FNRS Chairman

[GOAL] Re: The Titanium Road response

2011-12-23 Thread Stevan Harnad
. I wish Arthur the best of luck in promoting Titanium. I'm sure he does not wish me any less in promoting Green OA mandates. Peace. Stevan Harnad On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 1:37 AM, Arthur Sale a...@ozemail.com.au wrote: [ARTHUR] It seems that I am back on-list again, so here

[GOAL] Titanium Killer Apps and OA

2011-12-20 Thread Stevan Harnad
Green OA self-archiving. Stevan Harnad From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: Monday, 19 December 2011 1:10 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Bold predictions for 2012   My friend and comrade

[GOAL] Re: Monitoring Open Access Mandate Compliance

2011-12-19 Thread Stevan Harnad
From: Repositories discussion list  On Behalf Of Lawson, Gerald J.   Sent: Tuesday, 20 December 2011 5:40 AM Subject: Monitoring Open Access Publications   Colleagues - some of you will have noticed that the UK Government's Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth,

[GOAL] Gratis vs. Libre OA

2011-12-18 Thread Stevan Harnad
yet have it)? Stevan Harnad Thanks, Mike Michael W. Carroll Professor of Law and Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property American University, Washington College of Law 4801 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20016 (202) 274-4047 (voice) (202) 730-4756

[GOAL] Gratis vs. Libre OA

2011-12-18 Thread Stevan Harnad
that researchers want or need it -- whereas it's certain that they want and need Gratis OA (and they don't yet have it)? Stevan Harnad Thanks, Mike Michael W. Carroll Professor of Law and Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property American

[GOAL] Re: Bold predictions for 2012

2011-12-18 Thread Stevan Harnad
as well as into the implementation of OA mandates almost as fast as it is developed). Stevan Harnad Superannuated Archivangelist On 2011-12-18, at 4:12 PM, Arthur Sale wrote: Richard, you asked what we’d like to see in 2012.   I’d like to see more open access journals, and higher prestige

[GOAL] On OA's one and only overwhelming priority

2011-12-16 Thread Stevan Harnad
, Stevan Harnad wrote: On 2011-12-15, at 5:58 AM, Donat Agosti wrote: Dear Peter and Stevan “I would feel more strongly about supporting GreenOA if we actually built an index of it” I always thought

[GOAL] Fwd: Automating metadata extraction

2011-12-15 Thread Stevan Harnad
Begin forwarded message: From: Arthur Sale ahjs -- OZEMAIL.COM.AU Date: December 15, 2011 4:42:47 PM EST To: JISC-REPOSITORIES at JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Automating metadata extraction My attention was taken by the good deposit interface provided by Mendeley: the researcher simply

[GOAL] Re: Helmholtz Association supports COPE

2011-12-14 Thread Stevan Harnad
It is a great strategic mistake -- and a substantial waste of scarce research funds in exchange for a negligible amount of Open Access -- for an institution or organization to commit to funding gold open access publishing charges for articles published in gold open access journals unless it first

[GOAL] Fwd: AmSci Update

2011-12-13 Thread Stevan Harnad
-- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Poynder ri...@richardpoynder.co.uk Date: Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 6:22 AM Subject: AmSci Update To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM at listserver.sigmaxi.org Dear All, I understand it has been agreed that I will be the new moderator of

[GOAL] Fwd: AmSci Forum Migrating to Global Open Access List (GOAL): New Moderator, Richard Poynder

2011-12-13 Thread Stevan Harnad
-- Forwarded message -- From: Stevan Harnad amscifo...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:02 PM Subject: AmSci Forum Migrating to Global Open Access List (GOAL): New Moderator, Richard Poynder To: American Scientist Open Access Forum AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM

AmSci Forum Migrating to Global Open Access List (GOAL): New Moderator, Richard Poynder

2011-12-13 Thread Stevan Harnad
the end of December, AmSci and GOAL will run in duplicate. Although we hope the transfer will be smooth, there may be a few glitches. We apologize and hope you will be patient until they are sorted out.) Stevan Harnad (soon to be replaced by Richard Poynder!) --- Below are the complete results

[GOAL] Fwd: Barbara Kirsop (forwarded from AmSci)

2011-12-13 Thread Stevan Harnad
From: barbara kirsop barbara -- biostrat.demon.co.uk To: American Scientist Open Access Forum american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re:      AmSci Update List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:41:05 - Thank you

Re: UK Government Support for Open Access

2011-12-13 Thread Stevan Harnad
, progress and impact of the research that the public funds, for the benefit of the public. Stevan Harnad At 8:26 PM -0500 12/11/11, LIBLICENSE wrote: From: David Prosser david.pros...@rluk.ac.uk Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:00:56 + The UK Government has just published its Innovation

Self-Selection and the Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles

2011-12-12 Thread Stevan Harnad
Title:Self-Selection and the Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=17004555show=abstract Citation:Jingfeng Xia, Katie Nakanishi, (2012) Self-Selection and the Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles, Online Information Review, Vol. 36

Re: Government White Paper on OA

2011-12-10 Thread Stevan Harnad
. Stevan Harnad EnablingOpenScholarship http://www.openscholarship.org

Is Harvard's No-Opt-Out Deposit-Requirement Clear Enough?

2011-12-06 Thread Stevan Harnad
for authors the benefits of depositing their articles. http://wiki.eprints.org/w/IRStats Stevan Harnad

Re: List of predatory OA journal publishers

2011-12-06 Thread Stevan Harnad
Stevan and I, amongst others,  have added comments on the list. Charles      Professor Charles Oppenheim From: Stevan Harnad amscifo...@gmail.com To: CHARLES OPPENHEIM c.oppenh...@btinternet.com Sent: Saturday

List of predatory OA journal publishers

2011-12-04 Thread Stevan Harnad
-- Forwarded message -- From: CHARLES OPPENHEIM c.oppenheim -- btinternet . com List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org Date: Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:50 AM Subject: List of predatory OA journal publishers See http://metadata.posterous.com/83235355 Stevan and I,

Re: A new citation style

2011-12-02 Thread Stevan Harnad
citation best-practice advice, but why is it being posted in this Forum? You might try the Bibliographic Ontology Specification Group: http://groups.google.com/group/bibliographic-ontology-specification-group/about ?hl=en Stevan Harnad   many thanks for your consideration and time

Re: Stepping down as Moderator of American Scientist Open Access

2011-12-02 Thread Stevan Harnad
the door...] Your worn and wizened archivangelist. On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:05 PM, eugene.garfi...@thomsonreuters.com wrote: When I think about Stevan Harnad another information pioneer comes to mind. The Belgian documentalist Paul Otlet. His collaborator Henri LaFontaine,  received the Nobel Peace

Fwd: News release: JISC and UK Research Councils to build a robust repository infrastructure for the future

2011-11-28 Thread Stevan Harnad
Begin forwarded message: From: Peter Suber  List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org Date: November 26, 2011 10:42:06 AM EST To: SOAF post sparc-oafo...@arl.org, BOAI Forum post boai-fo...@ecs.soton.ac.uk [Forwarding from JISC, via the JISC-Repositories list.  --Peter

Re: Stepping down as Moderator of American Scientist Open Access Forum

2011-11-28 Thread Stevan Harnad
discussion list rather than a bulletin board… HELENE BOSC: In memory of the remarkable work done by Stevan Harnad for Open Access through this list, during 14 years, I wish it continues... Richard Poynder would be a perfect moderator! BARBARA KIRSOP: If Stevan feels he can better operate in support

Re: Stepping down as Moderator of American Scientist Open Access Forum

2011-11-27 Thread Stevan Harnad
board… HELENE BOSC: In memory of the remarkable work done by Stevan Harnad for Open Access through this list, during 14 years, I wish it continues... Richard Poynder would be a perfect moderator!  BARBARA KIRSOP: If Stevan feels he can better operate in support of OA not as the moderator

Re: Signing off AmSci

2011-11-25 Thread Stevan Harnad
in this matter as you see it, not being a researcher myself, and you would simply have snapped back with your usual arguments. Too bad. Ros Begin forwarded message: From: Stevan Harnad amscifo...@gmail.com Date: November 22, 2011 9:06:47 PM EST

Re: 60% of Journals Allow Immediate Archiving of Peer-Reviewed Articles - but it gets much much better...

2011-11-25 Thread Stevan Harnad
and there is no yellow OA.  Stevan Harnad On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Peter Millington peter.milling...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote: Dana Be careful what you ask for. A list of the ~5% of journals that do not allow any form of open access archiving whatsoever would contain getting

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