On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 19:00 +0900, Andrew A. Adams wrote: > > "The [UK] government has drafted in the Wikipedia founder Jimmy > > Wales to help make all taxpayer-funded academic research in Britain > > available online to anyone who wants to read or use it." > > I was hoping that the new government might be less star-struck than the > previous one. Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose, it would seem. We really > don't need Jimmy Wales advising on this. The team behind eprints has been > (with minimal funding) developing the technology needed for many years and > there are many academics in the UK much better versed in the intricacies of > UK academic work and life than Mr Wales. Sigh. I foresee another lost couple > of years wasted on this instead of getting to grips with the known problem > and the known solution (including providing better funding for eprints > development to the team that created it and still does the software > engineering for it).
Thanks for the kudos. This article did take me to the UK.gov working group: http://www.researchinfonet.org/publish/wg-expand-access/ Unfortunately they seem to have a focus on "big deal" licensing (!) and author-pays economics. I haven't heard anything from their institutional repository sub-group, although there are a lot of layers between me and them ... hopefully IRs - a solution to access - won't get drowned out by licensing/author-pays reform - a solution to library budget constraints - in their report. In terms of the UK "Gateway to Research" I expect that is the political equivalent to "data.gov.uk". It doesn't make much sense to have national gateways as a research tool and anyway in implementation I can't see much chance of a "one solution to rule them all" working. In all likelihood we will continue as we are - institutional based EPrints/DSpaces/etc. that are harvested into a central tool for tracking mandate compliance and "value for money" for UK spending. (This is already in the pipeline with the RCUK ROS system - most likely using something like CERIF to share data within and between institutions, funders, and the UK and EU governments) -- Tim Brody School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ United Kingdom Email: t...@ecs.soton.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 7698 [ Part 1.2, "This is a digitally signed message part" ] [ Application/PGP-SIGNATURE (Name: "signature.asc") 501 bytes. ] [ Unable to print this part. ] [ Part 2: "Attached Text" ] _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
