DRFIC2008 Call for posters and participation

2007-10-03 Thread SUGITA Shigeki
[ The following text is in the ISO-2022-JP character set. ] [ Your display is set for the iso-8859-1 character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] Call for posters and participation: DRF International Conference 2008 Open Access and Institutional Repository in

Re: Success Rate of the First of the Self-Archiving Mandates: University of Southampton ECS

2007-10-03 Thread Arthur Sale
As a matter of interest the Australian research assessment (RQF) refuses to allow its assessors to look at any metadata whatsoever, but insists that every assessable item must be in an institutional repository (even articles in open access journals), and assessors link direct to them. Someday,

Re: Success Rate of the First of the Self-Archiving Mandates: University of Southampton ECS

2007-10-03 Thread Leslie Carr
I think that Southampton** is quietly confident that if you can talk up Open Access while actually achieving the metadata deposits as an embedded institutional process, then the final stage of document deposit will be relatively painless to achieve. If you ask them whether they would have planned

Success Rate of the First of the Self-Archiving Mandates: University of Southampton ECS

2007-10-03 Thread j.f.rowl...@lboro.ac.uk
The British Higher Education Funding Councils have negotiated some rather complicated special arrangements with publishers to ensure that their panels can get electronic access to the full texts of all the papers that have been entered for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) even if they

Testing Success Rates vs Stimulating Them

2007-10-03 Thread Leslie Carr
It occurred to me that it is rather bizarre behaviour to go to the trouble of exporting ISI bibliographic metadata about my publications solely to measure the effectiveness or shortcomings of my repository. Much better by far to import that list into my repository to top up my missing articles