2008/12/2 Stevan Harnad <amscifo...@gmail.com>: > Digital documents that are made freely accessible on the web can be > accessed, read on-screen, downloaded, stored, printed-off, and data-crunched > by any individual user. (They can also be harvested by harvesters like > google.) That is all the use that researchers need, and that is all the use > that ("Gratis") OA need provide.
No, researchers also need libre OA. As I have shown according German law it is not possible for all researchers to data-crunch digital documents. > For the remaining > 37%, the author has the option of depositing in Closed Access and letting > users rely on the "email eprint request" button during any publisher > embargo. As I have shown the button is in Germany illegal, and my few tests make it clear that it is realistic not to speak of 37 % but let us say of 10 %. THE BUTTON DOESN'T WORK IN THIS WAY. He technically works but that's all. Klaus Graf