Re: US University OA Resolutions Omit Most Important Component

2005-06-07 Thread Stevan Harnad
I am happy to report that 4 out of the 8 University OA Resolutions in
ARL's 2005 list

http://www.arl.org/scomm/open_access/2005facultyresolutions.html

do *not* omit the all-important self-archiving component of an Open
Access Policy.

University of Kansas (1) has already registered its policy at

http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php

and it is hoped Cornell (2), Case Western Reserve University (3) and
University of Wisconsin-Madison (3) will register theirs too! Their
self-archiving policies [excerpted] are:

(1) University of Kansas:

[T]he University of Kansas Faculty Senate... Calls on all
faculty of the University of Kansas to... deposit... a digital
copy of every article accepted by a peer-reviewed journal into
the [KU] ScholarWorks repository, or a similar open access venue

http://www.provost.ku.edu/policy/scholarly_information/scholarly_resolution.htm

(2) Cornell University:

The Senate strongly urges all faculty to deposit preprint or
postprint copies of articles in an open access repository such as
the Cornell University DSpace Repository...
http://www.library.cornell.edu/scholarlycomm/resolution.html

(3) University of Wisconsin:

University of Wisconsin-Madison...faculty and academic staff
researchers...  must take action to ensure that their works are
accessible to advance research and learning, and specifically
should consider... Self-archiving their works in information
repositories supported by research institutions and professional
societies.
http://www.secfac.wisc.edu/senate/20050307/1839.pdf

(4) Case Western Reserve University:

Be it resolved that the Faculty Senate urges the University and
its members to... Post their work prior to publication in an open
digital archive and... to post their published work in a timely
fashion and provide institutional support to those seeking to do so

http://www.case.edu/president/facsen/frames/committees/library/LibraryComReport.pdf

Peter Suber has a longer list including earlier University Resolutions at:

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/lists.htm#actions

Over 90% of journals already endorse author self-archiving,

http://romeo.eprints.org/

so the only thing still needed now is university policies mandating it:

http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
http://www.surf.nl/download/Alma%20Swan%20-%20Faculty%20awareness.ppt
http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/outcomes.html

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/39903.htm

Stevan Harnad

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UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY:
BOAI-1 (green): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal
http://romeo.eprints.org/
OR
BOAI-2 (gold): Publish your article in a open-access journal if/when
a suitable one exists.
http://www.doaj.org/
AND
in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article
in your institutional repository.
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
http://archives.eprints.org/


RE: US University OA Resolutions Omit Most Important Component

2005-05-16 Thread Alma Swan
In response to a comment by David Prosser, Jan Szczepanski said:
 
 I would say that You are absolutely wrong. We don't do the things you
 say we do. I don't think you, a director at SPARC or I, a librarian from
 Sweden has that power. NIH could be included in we, that's power,
 bureaucratic power. As You know bureaucrats are not liked by anyone.
 
 If it is not we that force the researcher, who is?

It is certainly not up to librarians to issue edicts to researchers on
this matter, but employers and funders do have the right to insist on
researchers carrying out a course of action. If we replace the rather
emotive word 'force' with 'require' then we already know what the outcome
would be. Of the almost 1300 researchers recently polled on this issue,
the results are as follows:

* 81% would WILLINGLY comply with a requirement from their employer or 
  funder to self-archive their articles
* 13% would comply reluctantly
* 5% would refuse to comply
 
 Researchers are part of a research community with a very special and
 nobel agenda and they act civilized.

They do, and they have two other characteristics worth mentioning in this
context. Many are still ignorant of open access and its benefits (over
30%, for example, are unaware of self-archiving as a means to provide open
access) and they are busy people, for whom the few minutes it takes to
self-archive an article may seem a distraction from other work. Just as
funders require researchers to take the time to write an end-of-project
report, and employers levy an implicit requirement for researchers to
publish their results, they can also legitimately require them to spend a
few minutes depositing articles in an open access archive. And expect
little in the way of dissent, too.

Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK


Re: US University OA Resolutions Omit Most Important Component

2005-05-15 Thread Stevan Harnad
Good news: Cornell University is now the second U.S. University
(after University of Kansas) *not* to omit the all-important
self-archiving component from its Faculty Senate
Resolution on Scholarly Publishing, passed May 11 2005.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/scholarlycomm/resolution.html

That critical component was this:

The Senate strongly urges all faculty to deposit preprint or
postprint copies of articles in an open access repository such as
the Cornell University DSpace Repository...

which is almost identical to the corresponding passage in the University
of Kansas Resolution:

the University of Kansas Faculty Senate... Calls on all faculty
of the University of Kansas to seek amendments... to permit
the deposition of a digital copy of every article accepted by a
peer-reviewed journal into the ScholarWorks repository...
http://www.eprints.org/signup/fullinfo.php?inst=University%20of%20Kansas

University of Kansas Registers its Institutional
OA Self-Archiving Policy (April 7, 2005)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4484.html

This means that now Cornell too can register its self-archiving policy, as
Kansas has already done, at:

http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php

being the second U.S. University to have adopted a self-archiving policy.

Registering the new policy and describing its critical self-archiving
component will help encourage other universities worldwide to follow suit:

http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php

Stevan Harnad

UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional
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please describe your policy at:
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UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY:
BOAI-1 (green): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal
http://romeo.eprints.org/
OR
BOAI-2 (gold): Publish your article in a open-access journal if/when
a suitable one exists.
http://www.doaj.org/
AND
in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article
in your institutional repository.
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
http://archives.eprints.org/

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RE: : US University OA Resolutions Omit Most Important Component

2005-05-13 Thread David Prosser
In these discussions about authors doing, or being forced to do, what is
'good for them' we appear to forget that we already force authors to do
'what is good for them'.  For example:

In return for providing research grants we force researchers to deposit
gene sequences, protein sequences, etc.  It is not to the benefit of the
individual researcher to deposit, they don't volunteer, but we recognise
the value of it being done and so insist on it. In doing so we create
databases that are of benefit to all researchers.

In return for providing research grants we force researchers to write and
file end-of-project reports.  Again, researchers don't volunteer to write
these reports, but we recognise the value of having a reporting step and
insist on it.

In return for providing (significant) research grants the NIH is now
insisting on strategies to make data available.  The researchers are not
queuing-up to volunteer, but NIH sees it as important and so forces
researchers to 'do the right thing'.

Open access advocates would argue that in return for research grants
funding agencies have the right to 'force' researchers to make a copy of
their research papers available through open access.  The fact that some
may not volunteer to do this no more significant than the fact the some do
not volunteer to deposit sequences, write reports, or publicly archive
their data.  If the funders of research believe it is important then they
have a right to 'force' researchers to do something that benefits research
by widening access and dissemination of the research they have paid for.

David

David C Prosser PhD
Director
SPARC Europe
 
E-mail:  david.pros...@bodley.ox.ac.uk
Tel:   +44 (0) 1865 277 614
Mobile:  +44 (0) 7974 673 888
http://www.sparceurope.org
 

-Original Message-

[mailto:owner-liblicens...@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Lisa Dittrich
Sent: 12 May 2005 03:37
To: liblicens...@lists.yale.edu; mef...@mail.med.cornell.edu
Subject: Re: Fwd: US University OA Resolutions Omit Most
ImportantComponent

People have been educated to death about what's good for them health wise;
the public knows all this, they (we) just won't act on it.  So the
question is, do we legislate behavior?  We all know that is the issue now.  
And who gets legislated/punished?  The companies that make the bad
products (Mcdonalds, etc.) or the people that practice the bad behaviors
(through higher insurance rates, etc.).  OA is hardly brand new, and
lord knows PLOS and others have worked the press very well indeed.  
Perhaps (shock!) researchers aren't as generous minded as OA/IR proponents
would like to think (remember all that fighting over who discovered the
AIDS virus?)?  Or perhaps, indeed, busy researchers are just too busy
doing their jobs (and the problem is...?)  What OA and IR evangelists seem
increasingly eager to do is legislate when recruiting volunteers doesn't
work.  They are like the Republicans ranting about family values--if they
can't change peoples hearts, they'll by God force! them to follow the
Moral Law as they see it.

Researchers give our journal their papers--via an online ms. submission
system that we pay a monthly fee for (and that we paid a hefty fee and
lots of staff time to start up); that we then review (more staff time, on
the part of our editor and other staff); that we generate correspondence
for; substantively edit if accepted, etc. etc. etc.  The reason the author
gives it to us is that he/she wants the imprimature of our journal's
name and reputation to enhance his or her reputation.  That's the fact.

Otherwise, OA/IR advocates would promote simply bypassing the journal
process altogether and recommend posting mss. on online repositories and
forget we money-grubbing journals altogether.

Lisa Dittrich
Managing Editor
Academic Medicine
lrdittr...@aamc.org (e-mail)


Re: US University OA Resolutions Omit Most Important Component

2005-05-10 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Lisa Dittrich wrote:

 I love all the rhetoric about faculty not knowing what's good for them
 and how they simply have to be educated about the virtues of OA and IRs.  
 Baloney.  If it was of value to them, they'd know, and they'd do.

Here is a partial reply (re-posted from Alma Swan):

Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 17:58:46 +0100
From: Alma Swan a.s...@talk21.com
To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org
Subject: Re: What Provosts Need to Mandate

I can now report that I have completed the data analysis for the
latest survey on self-archiving and the results on this issue of
mandating are as follows:

Percentage of authors who would willingly self-archive if their
employer or funder required them to do so = 81%
Percentage who would do so reluctantly = 13%
Percentage who would not self-archive, even with a mandate = 5%

The 'most willing' country is the USA, where 88% of authors would
self-archive willingly under a mandate and a further 11% would
self-archive reluctantly. The 'least willing' is China, where 58%
would self-archive willingly and 32% would do so reluctantly.

The report is now written and out with reviewers. It will be published
by JISC shortly.

Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK

 I have been reading lately about how uninterested authors seem to be in
 OA (except a vocal few) and how the response is we must educate them.
 Too funny.  Summer is upon us:  shall we organize special camps?

I would say that, for example, the 34,000 biologists who signed the
PLoS open letter hardly betoken a lack of interest in OA:

http://www.plos.org/about/history.html

But there is certainly still a lack of awareness on the part of many
researchers about OA, how and why to provide it, and especially about
its dramatic influence of research impact:

http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html

I will close with some more data from the remarkable Alma Swan,
along with her recommendations on ways of raising faculty awareness,
from a presentation she is doing in Amsterdam this very day:

--

Making the strategic case for institutional
repositories (CNI, JISC,  SURF) Amsterdam, May 10-11

Alma Swan (2005) Session on [Raising] Faculty Awareness
http://www.surf.nl/en/bijeenkomsten/index4.php?oid=6

AWARENESS OF SELF-ARCHIVING:

Of those who have not self-archived any articles:
-- 29% are aware of the possibility of providing open access this way
-- 71% are not
-- Non-archivers = 51% of the population
-- 31% of researchers are not aware of the possibility of self-archiving 
-- Only 10% of self-archivers know about the SHERPA/RoMEO 
   publisher policies directory
   http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
   http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php
-- Less than 25% are aware of the UK House of Commons Select Committee
   recommendations
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/39903.htm
-- Less than 25% are aware of the NIH proposals

What to do about author awareness, then?  Make them AWARE:

--  of the citation advantage of open access work
-- of the existence of IRs and what is in them 
-- that THEY can self-archive too and reap the benefits 
   easy to do
-- doesn't take long - just a few minutes, a few keystrokes
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10688/
-- copyright
-- of moves on the official requirement to self-archive 
-- officially require them to self-archive!

POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT:

-- Providing hit statistics
   http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/
   http://citebase.eprints.org/analysis/correlation.php
-- Demonstrating the citation advantage
   http://citebase.eprints.org/isi_study/
   http://www.crsc.uqam.ca/lab/chawki/ch.htm
-- Showing how to find citation counts
   http://citebase.eprints.org/cgi-bin/search

--

Stevan Harnad

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Re: US University OA Resolutions Omit Most Important Component

2005-05-05 Thread David Stern
While Stevan's push for 100% coverage of academic materials within OA
repositories is on target, I still believe that we need a more reliable
and universal infrastructure for decentralized repositories ... one that
includes long-term support, which means funding for all authors and
organized RD for enhanced navigation.

The present loose federation of existing D-Space (and other) and possible
FEDORA-based institutional repository (IR) platforms does not yet offer
the scalable design that we require in order to develop integrated tools
with universal storage. Perhaps we need to devlop a blend of IRs and
discipline-based repositories (a la arXiv) in order to provide platforms
and navigation for all users -- not just those in organizations able to
run their own IRs?
 
We have the technology, now we need to focus our support on a plan that
provides universal storage and access ... with or without the peer review
overlay for the present time.

David

David Stern
Director of Science Libraries and Information Services
Kline Science Library
New Haven, CT  06520-8111
email:  david.e.st...@yale.edu


Quoting Stevan Harnad har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk:

 University Open Access (OA) Resolutions, even toothless, purely abstract
 ones with no concrete policy proposals, are better than no University OA
 Resolutions, one would have thought, just as some sort of NIH OA Policy
 is better than none (one would have thought).

[SNIP]

 The only thing universities need to do in order to make the content that
 they themselves already provide openly accessible is to keep on
 publishing it in journals exactly as they always have done, but in
 addition, to make an online copy of it openly accessible to all would-be
 users webwide who cannot afford the official published version -- by
 self-archiving a supplementary draft of every published article in the
 university's own OA eprint archive.

[SNIP]

 Let us hope that other universities (US and non-US) as well as research
 institutions and research funders world-wide will not copy/clone diffuse
 and directionless statements/resolutions such as Columbia's and
 Berkeley's but instead include the critical concrete component {1} that
 will convey us all at long last to the optimal and inevitable (and long
 overdue) outcome for research, researchers, their institutions, their
 funders, and their funders' funders, the tax-paying public: 100% OA
 
 Stevan Harnad


Re: US University OA Resolutions Omit Most Important Component

2005-05-05 Thread Jan Szczepanski. Goteborgs Univ Bibl

Dear Stevan,

Maybe the problem is reality.

Maybe scientists is fighting for their freedom.

Maybe scientists feel that Your alternative is taken that freedom from
them.

Maybe their is something wrong when you make it compulsary.

In Russia under the Stalin rule many things were compulsory to force
people into the communist heaven.

Maybe scientists are sceptical when their employer makes something
compulsary.

Scientists just trust other scientists. That is the problem with the green
way.

Sincerely Yours

Jan
Jan Szczepanski
Frste bibliotekarie
Goteborgs universitetsbibliotek
Box 222
SE 405 30 Goteborg, SWEDEN
Tel: +46 31 773 1164 Fax: +46 31 163797
E-mail: jan.szczepan...@ub.gu.se



Stevan Harnad wrote:

University Open Access (OA) Resolutions, even toothless, purely abstract
ones with no concrete policy proposals, are better than no University OA
Resolutions, one would have thought, just as some sort of NIH OA Policy is
better than none (one would have thought).

Please Don't Copy-Cat Clone NIH-12 Non-OA Policy!
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4307.html

But, we must ask ourselves, is this really true, at a time when 100% OA is
fully within reach and already long overdue, with research access, usage,
impact and progress continuing to be needlessly lost, the loss compounded
daily, weekly, monthly, as we continue making false starts that miss the
point and keep heading us off in the wrong directions (and mostly no
direction at all)?


[SNIP]


What was missing from both was the core component of a targeted university
OA policy, the only component with the capacity to move universities to
100% OA rather than continuing to drift aimlessly, as they do now.

Of all the US University Statements and Resolutions, the only one that
does contain this all-important component (albeit in a needlessly
circuitous and somewhat hobbled form, because the part in square brackets
is at least 92% superfluous -- http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php) is that
of the University of Kansas:  [SNIP]

All the rest of the US university statements and resolutions so far fail
to mention self-archiving at all, going on and on instead about {3} the
high costs of journals, about {4} the (putative) need to reform copyright
and retain ownership, and about {5} the (putative) need to favor
alternative publication venues (by which is meant OA journals), not only
by helping to fund them (i.e., {2} above), but even by more favorably
evaluating the work that appears in them; and of course there is much
abstract and ideological praise for {6} the abstract principle of free(r)
access.


[SNIP]


The only thing universities need to do in order to make the content that
they themselves already provide openly accessible is to keep on publishing
it in journals exactly as they always have done, but in addition, to make
an online copy of it openly accessible to all would-be users webwide who
cannot afford the official published version -- by self-archiving a
supplementary draft of every published article in the university's own OA
eprint archive.

With 92% of journals having already given their green light to university
self-archiving it is nothing short of absurd to keep harping on retaining
copyright {4} and favoring alternative venues {5} instead of simply
adopting a policy of self-archiving all university journal article output:

http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php


[SNIP]


Let us hope that other universities (US and non-US) as well as research
institutions and research funders world-wide will not copy/clone diffuse
and directionless statements/resolutions such as Columbia's and Berkeley's
but instead include the critical concrete component {1} that will convey
us all at long last to the optimal and inevitable (and long overdue)
outcome for research, researchers, their institutions, their funders, and
their funders' funders, the tax-paying public: 100% OA

Stevan Harnad


Re: US University OA Resolutions Omit Most Important Component

2005-05-05 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Wed, 4 May 2005, David Stern wrote:

 While Stevan's push for 100% coverage of academic materials within OA
 repositories is on target, I still believe that we need a more reliable
 and universal infrastructure for decentralized repositories ... one that
 includes long-term support, which means funding for all authors and
 organized RD for enhanced navigation.

All funding and support are of course welcome, but please, please let us not 
lose
sight (yet again) of the fact that the problem is not that the cupboards are
not *there* but that they are (85%) *bare*!

http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=analysis
http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=analysis
http://www.crsc.uqam.ca/lab/chawki/ch.htm

That means the immediate problem is *not* an insufficiently reliable and 
universal
infrastructure or insufficiently enhanced navigation. It is insufficient OA
content provision (15%). Hence what is needed, urgently, is university
*self-archiving policy*, not infrastructural or navigational enhancements:

http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/outcomes.html

 The present loose federation of existing D-Space (and other) and possible
 FEDORA-based institutional repository (IR) platforms does not yet offer
 the scalable design that we require in order to develop integrated tools
 with universal storage. Perhaps we need to devlop a blend of IRs and
 discipline-based repositories (a la arXiv) in order to provide platforms
 and navigation for all users -- not just those in organizations able to
 run their own IRs?

Trust me: No blend of the present network of near-empty cupboards will
create or invite OA content. Only an explicit OA content-provision policy,
by the content-providing institutions, for their own OA cupboards,
will generate that missing OA content. Provide the content and the
enhancements will all follow as a matter of course. Keep fussing instead
about enhancements, and OA will be delayed yet another needless decade.

 We have the technology, now we need to focus our support on a plan that
 provides universal storage and access ... with or without the peer review
 overlay for the present time.

Here David Stern is alas simply rehearsing well-worn (and long-answered)
worries that have merely been serving to hold back OA for years now,
not to advance it:

http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#1.Preservation
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#4.Navigation
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#7.Peer

Stevan Harnad

 David Stern
 Director of Science Libraries and Information Services
 Kline Science Library
 New Haven, CT  06520-8111
 email:  david.e.st...@yale.edu


 Quoting Stevan Harnad har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk:

  University Open Access (OA) Resolutions, even toothless, purely abstract
  ones with no concrete policy proposals, are better than no University OA
  Resolutions, one would have thought, just as some sort of NIH OA Policy
  is better than none (one would have thought).

 [SNIP]

  The only thing universities need to do in order to make the content that
  they themselves already provide openly accessible is to keep on
  publishing it in journals exactly as they always have done, but in
  addition, to make an online copy of it openly accessible to all would-be
  users webwide who cannot afford the official published version -- by
  self-archiving a supplementary draft of every published article in the
  university's own OA eprint archive.

 [SNIP]

  Let us hope that other universities (US and non-US) as well as research
  institutions and research funders world-wide will not copy/clone diffuse
  and directionless statements/resolutions such as Columbia's and
  Berkeley's but instead include the critical concrete component {1} that
  will convey us all at long last to the optimal and inevitable (and long
  overdue) outcome for research, researchers, their institutions, their
  funders, and their funders' funders, the tax-paying public: 100% OA
 
  Stevan Harnad



Re: US University OA Resolutions Omit Most Important Component

2005-05-05 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Jan Szczepanski. Goteborgs Univ Bibl wrote:

 Maybe the problem is reality.
 Maybe scientists [are] fighting for their freedom.
 Maybe scientists feel that your alternative is
 [taking] that freedom from them.
 Maybe [there] is something wrong when you make it compulsary.
 In Russia under the Stalin rule many things were compulsory to force
 people into the communist heaven.
 Maybe scientists are sceptical when their employer makes something
 compulsory.
 Scientists just trust other scientists.
 That is the problem with the green way.

Perhaps then scientists also trust empirical survey data rather than
individual a-priori speculations. According to the empirical data from
two international, cross-disciplinary JISC surveys of scientists (and
scholars), when they were asked:

If your employer or research funder REQUIRED you to deposit copies of 
your
articles in an open archive...:

79% replied that they would comply WILLINGLY

17% replied that the would comply reluctantly

4% replied that they would not comply

http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/ppts/02-AlmaSwan.ppt

First study (69%), based on smaller sample is available (as article and
report, below). Second study (79%), based on larger sample, is currently being
written up.

Swan, Alma and Brown, Sheridan (2004) Authors and open
access publishing. Learned Publishing 17(3):pp. 219-224.
http://cogprints.org/4123/
Swan, Alma and Brown, Sheridan (2004) JISC/OSI JOURNAL AUTHORS SURVEY
Report. In JISC Report http://cogprints.org/4125/

http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/OpenAccessArchive/

Stevan Harnad

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