Re: Suggested Action to promote OA: Reviewing boycott

2007-10-11 Thread Stevan Harnad
Forwarded from Peter Suber At 12:46 PM 10/11/2007, Peter Suber wrote: I second Stevan's advice and would add the following specifically about a referee boycott. Yes, some researchers have refused to serve as referees for journals that don't adopt good access policies. Ted Bergstro

Suggested Action to promote OA: Reviewing boycott

2007-10-11 Thread Stevan Harnad
(Posted with permission) Guillaume Chapron wrote: > I've just started an assistant professor position. I got recently a > paper accepted, and the conditions are as followed: > > - Submitted version: You may post the original manuscript of the > Article, as *submitted* for publication in th

Re: Gold Conversion: A Prisoners' Dilemma?

2007-10-11 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, David Goodman wrote: > The fastest solution will be for a library to preferentially use > its money to help pay author fees, leaving the few most used > subscriptions and relying on resource sharing for the others. The > membership pricing dilemma is solved by paying by the ar

Agreement on Open Access between Springer and German Library

2007-10-11 Thread Bargheer, Margo Friederike
Dear List, the State and University Library Göttingen(SUB) in Germany has recently started a pilot Project "Open Access with Springer Open Choice" on behalf of the University of Göttingen. The pilot project will operate until end of next year. The library and the scientific publisher Springer agre

An open access calendar, and a calendar for open access, 2008

2007-10-11 Thread Alma Swan
[ The following text is in the "UTF-8" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "iso-8859-1" character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] Creative Commons (CC) is celebrating its 5th birthday. Lawrence Lessig has written to all supporters describing its 'd