Re: How to Compare IRs and CRs

2008-02-18 Thread Arthur Sale
Thomas, what you actually wrote is   Show me an archive, and a university, who will vouch that for a   certain period, all that is in the IR  with free full-text   is a equivalent to the university's authors' total research   papers in the same period. Does such a university exist? Such a

Re: How to Compare IRs and CRs

2008-02-18 Thread Paula Callan
Arthur Thomas RE: -Original Message- From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Krichel Sent: Sunday, 17 February 2008 2:10 PM To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org

Re: New Ranking of Central and Institutional Repositories

2008-02-18 Thread Talat Chaudhri [tac]
I imagine that this is precisely why the Computer Science department asked for the script to be written, to make sure that their pages will no longer be out of date. The knock-on effect is that other departments can get it too. I might add that it really isn't very hard to achieve, and is a useful

Re: OA's Problem Is Not Funding But Keystrokes: Solution Is Mandates

2008-02-18 Thread Klaus Graf
2008/2/18, Stevan Harnad har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Thomas Krichel wrote: As Jean-Claude knows, I am a trained economist... Thus, here is what Jean and his gang should do: they should argue that the university should cancel physics, mathematics, computer science,

Homeworks on GAP and OAPEN (was Books in Open Access)

2008-02-18 Thread Bargheer, Margo Friederike
Dear Thomas Krichel, dear all, Göttingen University Press has watched the developments of GAP carefully from the beginning on without being involved in it for some reasons. We are member in the follow-up GAP association however. Some points I would like to make: a) GAP Works is an IT-supported

Re: OA's Problem Is Not Funding But Keystrokes: Solution Is Mandates

2008-02-18 Thread Klaus Graf
2008/2/18, Stevan Harnad har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk: The ID/OA mandate is to *deposit* -- not to make OA. There are no legal strictures, for example, on Closed Access deposit. That's right. But such a mandate is in the same way helpful like convincing publishers that OA (= Open Access, not:

Re: OA's Problem Is Not Funding But Keystrokes: Solution Is Mandates

2008-02-18 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Klaus Graf wrote: Stevan Harnad wrote: The ID/OA mandate is to *deposit* -- not to make OA. There are no legal strictures, for example, on Closed Access deposit. That's right. But such a mandate is in the same way helpful like convincing publishers that OA (= Open