There are major problems for the movement towards open access, such as filling
the archives, and there are relatively lesser problems, such as securing that
the archive content is as useful as possible. I fully agree that we should
address the major problems, but this does not entail that we
Re: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3123.html
Dr. Vinod Scaria is levelling charges of monopolism at BioMed Central that
are difficult to understand, unjustified, and unsubstantiated. This is
unfortunate and not very helpful to Open Access.
But buried in his posting is the
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, [identity removed] wrote:
How strange - if you go to the Nature Immunology website the words Open
Access appear in the left column - not quite sure what it refers to - any
ideas?
http://www.nature.com/ni/
As correctly predicted by Richard Poynder only a few weeks ago:
Welcome to the club
What do you think happens with the much more widely used words open
source, even though there is a precise definition available on the
web.
The promoters of open source tried to trademark the expression to
prevent that. But they were denied the trademark (even though this
Trends in Self-Posting of Research Material Online by Academic Staff
Theo Andrew supplies a case study from the University of Edinburgh.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue37/andrew/
This is a survey preceding a series of SHERPA eprint self-archiving
projects http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/ to be
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, [identity deleted] wrote:
I have noticed your recent postings on the liblicense listserv. I am
the librarian at [name deleted] Hospital, and we are looking at
archiving the papers published by our staff. I don't know how long we
will do this as I am hopeful that
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, [identity removed] wrote [in a
message forwarded by Stevan Harnad]:
How strange - if you go to the Nature Immunology website
the words Open Access appear in the left column - not
quite sure what it refers to - any ideas?
http://www.nature.com/ni/
Re
Copright /right of the Author law in Germany means:
it serves the publishers the right of the form, format, layout of the
paper, not the content. There is no rights management for the content.
Thus this fits to not selfarchive the .pdf file of the publisher but the
content in a form and format of
William Nixon says the question most frequently asked of the DAEDALUS
project is 'Why are you using both EPrints and DSpace? His admirably
thorough and practical Ariadne article
DAEDALUS: Initial experiences with EPrints and DSpace at the
University of Glasgow
Stevan Harnad wrote:
Just as it was counterproductive to villify toll-access publishers
(instead of either founding open-access journals or self-archiving),
so it is counterproductive to villify open-access publishers (instead
of either founding competing open-acecss journals or
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Dr.Vinod Scaria wrote:
It is... counterproductive to ignore the authors from the developing
world who have been always kept away from the mainstream.
I am not against the author pays model, but just against the lack of
flexibility in operation. Majority of researchers in
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