And some which do require Open Access have just recently started to crack the whip,
http://www.nature.com/news/funders-punish-open-access-dodgers-1.15007 -- rec -- On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Gary Schiltz <g...@naturesvisualarts.com>wrote: > Regarding OA mandates, which I assume stands for “Open Access” mandates, I > believe some funding agencies require that papers that result from research > funded by the agency (at least when the actual writing about the results is > funded by the grant) be made open access. Just a vague memory, so take it > with a grain of salt… > > Gary > > On Apr 16, 2014, at 3:36 PM, Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> > wrote: > > > 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> > > Subject: Re: Research Gate? > > Date: April 15, 2014 at 10:19:56 AM EDT > > To: Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> > > Cc: CC suppressed by NST > > > > On Apr 15, 2014, at 12:52 AM, Nick Thompson <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 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 > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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