Thanks, Sharon! This blog post is linked from a comment: http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/08/06/is-access-to-the-research-paper-the-same-thing-as-access-to-the-research-results/
While spanning a variety of topics, including differing notions of "what is a research product" in the humanities and social sciences, versus (especially) the biosciences, one of the key points is that a small handful of top research universities and university systems, including the UC system, draw substantial revenues from licensing their researchers' intellectual property. (Other universities lack this, or even may be losing money in the attempt to do so.) And as a result, while UC is seeking to make research papers more accessible, they're simultaneously locking down that IP in an attempt to garner even more cash from it: "The UC Regents, like the Finch Report, appear to draw a clear line between access to abstract knowledge [the types of material likely to be accessible publicly via the eScholarship open access archives - Aron] and the ability to put that knowledge to practical use [including patent licenses and possibly also unpublished technical details, from what I'm inferring]. The combination makes for a compelling business strategy though, with wide, free dissemination of the research papers serving as a marketing tool for the expensive licensing rights." In comments on the original article, there's also mention made of the costs and efforts involved - apparently on CDL's part? - in building and maintaining the content in the eScholarship archives, both for harvesting and for compliance with publishers' restrictions: "The harvesting component is indeed a great experiment, and one that will cost some money. I, and a lot of other faculty members, are putting faith in the California Digital Library that they can pull it off ..." "I think this program costs UC quite a lot. The library has to look up each embargoed article’s embargo period and then program it correctly. Under the US OSTP OA guidance we may see what I call “green hybrid” journals, which means different embargo periods for different articles, depending on which agency funded the work. If so then getting the embargo period right will take some serious work on the library’s part." Aron On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Sharon K. Goetz <[email protected]> wrote: > Is the occasional follow-up link permitted? > > http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/08/22/some-university-of-california-oa-policy-confusions/ > with a comment by Christopher Kelty (sometimes it _is_ good to skim the > comments...). > > Best, > Sharon > > -- > Digital Publications Manager, Mark Twain Papers & Project > http://www.marktwainproject.org/ http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/MTP/ > http://twitter.com/mtpo > > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Quinn Dombrowski <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> The RIT reading group will be meeting next Thursday (8/15) at noon in 200C >> Warren to discuss open access scholarly publishing, including the recent >> open access policy adopted by the University of California's Academic >> Senate, open access initiatives on campus, and reactions to the American >> Historical Association's support of embargos on dissertations in open access >> repositories. >> >> For those unfamiliar with open access, this Wikipedia article provides a >> basic overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access >> >> We will be discussing the following readings: >> >> 1) Chronicle article on UC Academic Senate announcement: >> http://chronicle.com/article/Open-Access-Gains-Major/140851/ >> >> 2) Open access briefing paper prepared for internal use by IST-RIT (PDF >> attached) >> >> 3) American Historical Association announcement: >> http://blog.historians.org/2013/07/american-historical-association-statement-on-policies-regarding-the-embargoing-of-completed-history-phd-dissertations/ >> and two blog responses: >> A) >> http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2013/07/24/etds-publishing-policy-based-on-fear/ >> B) >> http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2013/08/07/an-embargo-on-dissertations-will-not-solve-the-bigger-problem/ >> >> If you have any questions, please contact Quinn ([email protected]). > > >
