2008/9/15, Stevan Harnad <[email protected]>: > Klaus Graf wrote:
> > On September 7 I received 6 confirmation mails from the Zurich > > repository ZORA which has a similar button for a part of the non-OA > > items. On September 8 I received one PDF - seven days later I can say > > that 5 of 6 authors didn't fulfill the request. If you cannot bring > > harder facts this seems me enough empirical proof that the button > > doesn't work. > > I cannot speak for Zurich, which seems to be a particular focus for Klaus > Graf's scrutiny for some reason. Zurich is the only university in a German speaking country with a OA "mandate". I have checked the ZORA contents several times to find out the efficiency of that mandate and found several mail buttons I tried. Feel free to give me links to U Minho eprints with button (I didn't find some after a quick browsing there). He neglects to mention that he also clicked > the Button for one of my own papers in UQAM's Archipel, and was > automatically > emailed a copy within a few moments: > http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/920/ I have clicked on this button AFTER I wrote my message to this forum thus I could'nt mention it. And you can believe it or not: I DID RECEIVE A CONFIRMATION FROM THE RESPOSITORY BUT NO EPRINT UNTIL NOW. (I have also checked my spam mail ...) I believe Professor Harnad has allowed emailing it, but may be there is a delay from UQAM (some years?) or simply the button doesn't work (maybe nobody knows him). As I have shown in German at http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5193609/ the "immediate deposit/optional open access" strategy (Suber) isn't possible in Germany. It is not allowed by German Copyright law to deposit the papers and to put a request button in the repository. Only if the publisher (having exclusive rights) accepts an author contractual addendum containing such a permission it is possible. (If the publisher doesn't have exclusive rights the button is needless because immediate OA is possible.) Klaus Graf
