Re: The OA Deposit-Fee Kerfuffle: APA's Not Responsible; NIH Is

2008-07-18 Thread Steve Hitchcock
With points 10-14 Stevan has rather deftly restated the OA IR as a mandate, managed within the policy and business unit of the institution with a view to monitoring implementation and compliance. What we currently think of as an IR, some software managed by computing services and/or the library,

Re: The OA Deposit-Fee Kerfuffle: APA's Not Responsible; NIH Is

2008-07-18 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Jean-Claude Guédon wrote: I am a little puzzled by Stevan Harnad's accusation of hypothetical conditional.  When he writes: It would certainly have put APA in a very bad light if, having given its authors the green light to self-archive in their own IRs, APA then decided

Re: [SOAF] In Defense of the American Psychological Association's Green OA Policy

2008-07-18 Thread matt . hodgkinson
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Re: [SOAF] In Defense of the American Psychological Association's Green OA Policy

2008-07-18 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 8:51 AM, matt.hodgkin...@biomedcentral.com wrote: Nonsense. Stevan is simply trying to opportunistically use this unfair charge by APA as a wedge to force a change in NIH policy. One is free to see absence of sense where one fails to see sense, but I wonder what Matt

Re: The OA Deposit-Fee Kerfuffle: APA's Not Responsible; NIH Is

2008-07-18 Thread Stevan Harnad
** Apologies for Cross-Posting ** [see also PART I and PART 0] Peter Suber: At the moment, I see two conflicting APA statements and no evidence that either statement [2002 or 2008] took the other into account. So I'm still waiting for a definitive clarification