Dear Friammers,
I thought Stevan Harnad's response might interest the Open Access Publication enthusiasts on this list. Perhaps we could talk about it on Friday: I am wondering what is meant by OA mandates. From: Stevan Harnad <har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk <mailto:har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk> > Subject: Re: Research Gate? Date: April 15, 2014 at 10:19:56 AM EDT To: Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net <mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net> > Cc: CC suppressed by NST On Apr 15, 2014, at 12:52 AM, Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net <mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net> > wrote: Dear Dr. Harnad, I have been watching the development of Research Gate with bemusement. On the on hand it seems like another attempt make money off of academic vanity, but on the other hand it seems to be awfully good at pulling materials into the quasi=public domain. I am betting you have strong opinions about them, and I am wondering what those are. Nick Thompson (etc.) Dear Professor Thompson, Research Gate has managed to use some effective lures to get people to make their papers OA (mostly vanity indicators), but it does not scale. The same authors who do not make their papers OA in their IRs (unless it is made mandatory) don't upload them to RG. And RG is vulnerable to take-down notices as a 3rd-party publisher. What would be useful (and will probably happen, though too slowly) would be if universities used the automated lure/vanity techniques of RG (as well as those of the https://www.openaccessbutton.org <https://www.openaccessbutton.org/> they could even set up automatic google-scholar alerts ) for their own institutional authors as a carrot to back up their OA mandates. But even that is useless without the mandates themselves... Best wishes, Stevan
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