On 2011-08-22, at 2:40 AM, Francis Jayakanth wrote:
> Dear Prof. Harnad,
>
> A few days back, I had posted the following mail on the REPOMAN-L list. So
> far, there hasn't been any response from the list. Probably, I wasn't too
> clear in posing my query?
>
> I request you to have a look at th
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Subject: Of interest to AmSci Forum
Stevan:
I have a couple of blog postings that I think are of interest to the
A
From: Quentin Burrell, Isle of Man International Business School
>
> The following is the referenced version of an article recently published in
> the Guardian newspaper.
> http://www.monbiot.com/2011/08/29/the-lairds-of-learning/
> Some responses can be found at
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/scien
urpose of sustaining a service industry.
The publishing industry will adapt to the needs of research, never
fear. To try to make research adapt instead to the needs of the
publishing industry is to to try to make the publishing tail wag the
research dog:
http://openaccess.eprints.org/inde
ns
eventually become unsustainable.
Dixit,
Your Weary Archivangelist (gone quite long of tooth during the past
two wasted decades of inaction),
Stevan Harnad
EnablingOpenScholarship
http://www.openscholarship.org
> Dana L. Roth
> Millikan Library / Caltech 1-32
> 1200 E. California
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Barry Mahon wrote:
> As I've said to you many times over the years, your logic is impeccable,
> I'm just waiting for it to be implemented..
Ouch! Perhaps you're right that one should duck out after over a
decade and a half of abject failure. But call it blood-
successful OA policy
Chris Armbruster neglected to mention in his
comparisons. http://bit.ly/EOSpolicy
Stevan Harnad
The publications are based on extensive case study research and
interviews. The original report (in the long form) is also available
online:
Armbruster, C
Princeton has created an open access repository
for its authors to deposit in: It might be a good idea to create the
repository as soon as possible so Princeton authors can get into the
habit of practising what they pledge from the outset...]
Stevan Harnad
EnablingOpenScholarship
http://www.openscholarship.org/
analyses comparing mandated
and unmandated self-archiving rates have shown that mandates (and only
mandates) work, with self-archiving approaching 100% of annual
institutional research output within a few years. Without a mandate,
IR content just hovers for years at the spontaneous 15% self-archiving
rate.
Stevan Harnad
EnablingOpenScholarship (EOS)
http://www.openscholarship.org
o impute
words and sentiments?..."
The rest of the posting expands on these sentiments:
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Temp/oai1.htm
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Temp/oai2.htm
30 November will also be the 12th anniversary of the last time I ever exchanged
words with the prime organ
8:26 PM, Eric F. Van de Velde
wrote:
Stevan:Any movement has many parents and many birthdays. This is the
one I remember fondly for a variety of reasons, one of them: that
was the first time I met you in person!
--Eric.Â
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Stevan Harnad
wrote:
Sharing some replies to (frequently asked) questions:
On 2011-10-27, at 7:59 AM, Sonja Haerkoenen (U. Cardiff) wrote:
> ...thank you for your participation in our event... also for your responses
> to my queries, which came in very useful in the after-event discussions. The
> people who attende
trongly in favor of putting an end to our
unnecessary and cruel slaughter of animals in order to please our
palates -- but I don't conflate that with OA either! Why must I
speculate about the scholarly-journal business when all I want is that
institutions and funders should mandate green OA self-archiving?
Stevan Harnad
with low quality standards. But let us not
pretend they are doing that for OA, because they can have OA by
meeting the standards of a high quality journal -- and then
self-archiving their final, accepted drafts.
Amen,
Stevan
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Jan Velterop wrote:
> Steva
self-archiving of the final, refereed drafts of all journal articles
immediately upon acceptance for publication. The money to pay for gold OA
publishing will only become available if universal green OA eventually makes
subscriptions unsustainable. Paying for gold OA pre-emptively today, without
first having mandated green OA not only squanders scarce money, but it delays
the attainment of universal OA.
Stevan Harnad
EnablingOpenScholarship (EOS)
s" but I have no "relationship with OMICS
Group" (except possibly prior complaints about spam)! These spam
disclaimers are a lark. They seem to be using professional spam
services that try to appear respectable.
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On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Thomas Krichel wrote:
> Â Blame your colleagues in the library community. If they would stop
> Â subscribing to toll-gated journals, the toll-gated journals can't
> Â survive.
It's one thing to chide the library community for failing to make the
distinction betwe
Richard,
You are right about the abuse and the taint, and about the way even
wrong-headed ideas can  become entrenched and grow, just because of
their number of believers, not their validity.
And, yes, some thought OA would solve both the accessibility and the
affordability problem (esp. librari
ining!) OA can be fairly likened to
the indiscriminate, industrial-scale spamming of fool's gold OA
publishers in the interest of peddling their products?
Stevan
Harnad, S. (2007) The Green Road to Open Access: A Leveraged
Transition. In: The Culture of Periodicals from the Perspective of the
E
... And it's the right mandate: Immediate-Deposit/Optional-Access
(ID/OA). (The embargo ceiling -- 18 months -- is a bit too high, but
that's minor, compared to the splendid and timely example set by
adopting the optimal mandate.) Gefeliciteerd, Nederland!
>From ROARMAP http://roarmap.eprint
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Michael Eisen wrote:
>>
>>
>> M.E.:
>> > But if you're going to use the standard of email inboxes being filled
>> > with
>> > nonstop entreaties to pursue a path to open access, surely it is green
>> > OA
>> > that would suffer the most :-).
>>
>> S.H.:
>> Mike, d
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Dana Roth
wrote:
> Reme brings up an excellent, if unstated, point ... commercially published
> OA journals like commercially published subscription journals are the
> problem ... not the society/non-commercial OA and subscription journals.
Fancy that! And here
At least, that is what EOS, OASIS and SPARC Campus Policy guidance will attempt
to help them understand and provide.Â
Stevan Harnad
es/71-guid.html
Stevan Harnad
EnablingOpenAcholarship (EOS)
http://www.openscholarship.org/jcms/c_6226/open-access-policies-for-universitie
s-and-research-institutions?hlText=policie
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 4:27 AM, CHARLES OPPENHEIM
wrote:
I agree with what Stevan and Andrew have said.
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Bernard Lang wrote:
Everything is very simple when you think only in terms of being able
to access a copy of the work and read it. Either you can or you
can't.
It is either self archived or it is the publisher's copy.
Â
It's not so simple f
nd the repository's semi-automated "email eprint
request" Button providing "Almost OA" to the remaining 40% for individuals
requesting access for research purposes.semi-automatically with two key-presses,
at the discretion of the author).
Stevan Harnad
On 2011-11-06, at 1:28 PM, Jean-Claude Guédon wrote:
The primary target information of the OA movement is refereed
research results in whatever form, articles, books, etc. They are
written for research uptake, and even though some research
monographs may entail symbolic r
On 2011-11-06, at 4:08 PM, Allen Kleiman wrote:
Is this a matter of 'commerce'?
Yes indeed, but definitely not commerce along the lines of the analogy you
describe below:
Suppose I own a car and [1] offer it for sale to a rental company
with [2] the verification of its reliabi
d-be users, not only by those whose institutions can afford to
subscribe
to the publisher's version of record.
Scrap the car-sale analogy. It simply does not fit the subtle and unique case of
refereed research publication of impact-seeking (not royalty-seeking) work.
Stevan Harnad
On 2011-11-
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Eric F. Van de Velde
wrote:
>
> [One] may disagree with the argument for IRs as a way to combat rising
> journal prices. However, it is definitely an argument that has been used,
> misguided or not...
IRs (if and when filled by mandating Green OA) can eventually
rrow focus of OA to the point
> that it begins to feel ill fitted to the needs of SSH researchers. Broadening
> these categories a little will not slow down OA, and it will bring in a much
> greater number of interested people.
Book deposit is welcome. Article deposit is mandatory. Who or what does this
exclude?
Stevan Harnad
pot.com/2011/06/open-access-by-numbers.html
Green OA mandates are the way to speed this up.
> That is leading to real reform of academic publishing (though it takes time,
> and suffers ups and downs). If 'green' speeds up that reform, great. But not
> by using dubious and disingenu
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Matthew Cockerill
wrote:
Yes, but under the subscription model, the flip-side of free choice
for authors can be lock-in for libraries, who may have little choice
but to subscribe to key journals, as original research is typically
non-substit
[I've reposted this from Thierry Chanier, adding an English
translation of the GFII working group's Statement excerpt -- just in
case any AmSci readers think the apparent vacuity of the GFII
statement is owing to an uncertain grasp of French: No it isn't. It
really is that vacuous in French too! --
dless of whether their
institutions can afford subscription access.
No need for any double-talk about double-payment. It doesn't help. It just
invites misunderstanding and criticism of what, when properly put, is a fair,
real, realistic and unassailable rationale for mandating open access.
Stevan Harnad
hing through indirect costs and other means. And then
> they're paying again to access the article themselves.
I wish it were that simple, Mike, but it's not.
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, Stevan Harnad wrote:
> Are tax-payers paying twice when universities pay to buy for their users
>
ago. I thought you deserved a farewell, and perhaps I
wanted to finally, albeit privately, get a word in. There would have
been no point in saying these things on the list; I have no real
standing in this matter as you see it, not being a researcher
myself, and you w
green OA.
There is no blue OA and there is no yellow OA.Â
Stevan Harnad
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Peter Millington
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
g
Dear All,
In September 2011 the AmSci Open Access Forum went into its 14th year. I think I
have been moderating the Forum long enough, and so I'm stepping down as
moderator, effective the end of December.
This leaves time for the Forum to decide (1) whether to continue (or the other
two OA lis
letin
boardâ¦
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!Â
BARBARA KIRSOP: If Stevan feels he can better operate in support of OA not as
the moderator,
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To: SOAF post , BOAI Forum post
[Forwarding from JISC, via the JISC-Repositories list. Â --Peter Suber.]
News release
22.11.2011
JISC and UK Res
ci covers. I want the
Forum to continue because it is a real discussion list rather than a bulletin
boardâ¦
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!
BARB
worthy general 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 Â
many thanks for your consideration an
issues that AmSci covers. I want the
Forum to continue because it is a real discussion list rather than a bulletin
boardâ¦
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 perf
t. I'll
get the door...]
Your worn and wizened archivangelist.
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:05 PM, wrote:
When I think about Stevan Harnad another information pioneer comes to
mind. The Belgian documentalist Paul Otlet. His collaborator Henri
LaFontaine, Â received the Nobel Peace Prize. That'
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See http://metadata.posterous.com/83235355
Stevan and I, a
c.uk/18511/
4. Provide download and citation statistics like IRstats to
demonstrate for authors the benefits of depositing their articles.
http://wiki.eprints.org/w/IRStats
Stevan Harnad
Stevan and I, amongst others, Â have added comments on the list.
CharlesÂ
Â
Â
Professor Charles Oppenheim
From: Stevan Harnad
To: CHARLES OPPENHEIM
Sent: Saturday, 3 December 2011, 22:48
Subject: Your posting
under the agreed conditions at the agreed time, if they
wish.
Stevan Harnad
EnablingOpenScholarship
http://www.openscholarship.org
Title:Self-Selection and the Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=17004555&show=abstract
Citation:Jingfeng Xia, Katie Nakanishi, (2012) "Self-Selection and the
Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles", Online Information
Review, Vol. 3
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!)
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From: "barbara kirsop" barbara -- biostrat.demon.co.uk
To: "American Scientist Open Access Forum"
Subject: Re: Â Â Â AmSci Update
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Thank you Richard, and good fortune with your new role. I very much
lik
ations, 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
>> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:00:56 +
>>
>>
>> The UK Governm
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 m
way to achieve OA. As long as we keep running off in
every other direction, we will get everywhere else, but not to OA.
Stevan
On 15 Dec 2011, at 12:28, Stevan Harnad wrote:
On 2011-12-15, at 5:58 AM, Donat Agosti wrote:
Dear Peter and Stevan
e access at no extra cost, while
subscriptions are still being paid for (and thereby paying for publication
costs
in full).
So why think about paying even more for Libre Gold OA today, when it's not at
all clear that researchers want or need it -- whereas it's certain that they
wan
s benefits is always welcome (and being actively
incorporated into the EPrints and DSpace repository software 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, y
From: Repositories discussion list  On Behalf Of Lawson, Gerald J. Â
Sent: Tuesday, 20 December 2011 5:40 AM
Subject: Monitoring Open Access Publications
Â
Colleagues - some of you will have noticed that the UK Government's
"Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth", p
with sensitive antennae for small
signals of scholarly revolutions... It is early days yet.
No, Arthur, it's not early days. It's extremely late days, insofar as OA is
concerned. This is not the time to keep waiting, yet again, to see how well some
new piece of technology will
of the
Titanium 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:
imize the NIH 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
enerations.
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 wrote:
[ARTHUR] It seems that I am back on-list again, so here is a
resp
l to make 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, wrote:
>
> Dear Thierry,
>
> In the French speaking community of Belgium (also called the
>
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)
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/23
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 (OA
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
PDFs 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.
in providing OA than repositories
>> are and in fact it is very disappointing in the number of open PDFs that it
>> has created...
>>
>> I have detailed spreadsheets and can redo the analyses if they are
>> interesting/useful.
>> --
>> les
>>
>&
, see
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/865-guid.html
and the Harvard response, below.
Stevan Harnad
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Friends: Here's the Harvard
rch.]"
H.R. 3699 misunderstands the secondary, service role that peer-reviewed
research journal publishing plays in US research and development and its
(public) fundingâ¦.
Continued at: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/867-guid.html
Stevan Harnad
On Fri Jan 6 16:43:10, Jennife
;>
>> Dominic Tate
>> UKCoRR External Liaison Officer
>> Phone: 01784 276619
>> Email: dominic.t...@rhul.ac.uk
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:jisc-repositor...@ji
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Thomas Krichel wrote:
> Â Stevan Harnad writes
>> Mike Eisen, in his splendid, timely op-ed article...
> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/opinion/research-bought-then-paid-for.html
> Â [wrote]: "Libraries should cut off their supply o
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:50 AM, Jan Velterop wrote:
> nowadays, peer review is the only remaining significant raison dâêtre of
> formal scientific publishing in journals...
This much is certainly true:
In the online era,of all the products and services bundled into the price
of a subscripti
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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 st
ms to be as out of touch with research reality
as the notion that researchers would prefer 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
>> Date: Tue, 1
Washington, DC and The Hague â
In a move that completes a year-long strategic restructuring of SPARCâs
operations in Europe, Dr. Alma Swan has been appointed to the position
of Director of European Advocacy, and Lars Bjørnshauge has been named
SPARCâs Director of European Library Relatio
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 AAP
Forwarding a BOAI posting (with which I would fully agree!). -- Stevan Harnad
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Andras Holl"
> 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 Ha
ier (and Penn
> State Press), permit authors of articles in the journals they publish
> to post Green OA versions on their institutional or personal web
> sites.
And RWA would prevent their funders from requiring them to do it.
Stevan Harnad
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only should the reports 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
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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
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
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> Forwar
ly the version accessed.)
There are many variants of these terms, including "definitive version" for the
publisher's version-of-record and "personal version" for the author's final
version. No term covers all nuances, but stretching the descriptor to "author
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:18 AM, Alicia López Medina
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
> is perverse for
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On 2012-02-10, at 8:47 AM, Gerritsma, Wouter wrote:
An analysis of OA deposits in Dutch repositories
http://wowter.net/2012/02/10/a-census-of-open-access-repositories-in-the-nether
lands/
Â
Deposits rates at Dutch universities vary between 7% and 40% for articles.
Are well in the 80% for Ph
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Gerritsma, Wouter
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 without carrots or
> stick
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
"pre-te
art 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
>> inevitab
you are going to cite
> something, you better read it first. You never know what changes might
> be made, minor or not, between the version you are reading and the
> version of record. They very well may be important changes.
>
>
> ~Leslie R Boyter
>
>
> -Original Mess
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From: Iryna Kuchma
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Subject: [BOAI] Ten Years On,
Researchers Embrace Open Access - Blog post re BOAI 10 on soros.org
Blog post re BOAI 10 o
a resounding, unambiguous, unequivocal "YES".
All the rest is irrelevant, and just equivocation or question-begging.
Stevan Harnad
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ek in Budapest at the 10th anniversary
meeting of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI-II).
(There was no mention of mandates whatsoever in BOAI-I.)
Stevan Harnad
Reconstructed Archivangelist
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the content will hurt your visibility.
Lastly, Google 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, 20
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:
MailScanner has de
r 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 a
Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic
Aspects. Chandos.
Stevan Harnad
EnablingOpenScholarship
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