Let me add something that I have said repeatedly in many forums and
without contradiction:
Universities are delinquent in their duty of public accountability
if they do not make all their research outputs which are not
specifically commissioned by private enterprise publicly accessible
on the
Arthur Sale writes
~SUniversities are delinquent in their duty of public
accountability if they do not make all their research outputs which
are not specifically commissioned by private enterprise publicly
accessible on the Internet.~T
That's what you think is their duty.
There are
I believe Arthur is right on his first point. This said, the issue of
university autonomy varies enormously from one country to another and that must
also be taken into account. In some countries, universities simply do not have
the needed margin of maneuver to create institutional repositories
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Thomas Krichel kric...@openlib.org
wrote:
Arthur Sale: Funders can nominate where they want the
research they fund to
be deposited, but in reality, to do so other than in
the institutional
repository simply creates extra work
Leaving aside the bandwidth-wasting remarks about the inability of people to
read what Harnad writes, I still find Harnad's answer unsatisfactory. The
reason is that he and I agree that a repository without a mandate is
ineffective. Consequently, arguing that one is not against
One more exercise of turning in circles. The main point is that the NIH mandate
does not affect at all the way in which institutional repositories develop. If
it did, I would like to have very precise and concrete examples...
Let's go once more:
How does 3 follow from 2 in the first response?
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Guédon Jean-Claude
jean.claude.gue...@umontreal.ca wrote:
How does 3 follow from 2 in the first response?
There is a logical gap here which indeed does not register.
A Simple Way to Optimize the NIH Public Access Policy (Oct 2004)
Please Don't Copy-Cat Clone
I ask for an explanation about what appears like a logical gap to me. All I get
in response is a series of references which reiterate the same thesis over and
over.
This must be Stevan Harnad's notion of what a civil debate must be like... It
goes roughly like this:
I (SH) am right.
If they
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Guédon Jean-Claude
jean.claude.gue...@umontreal.ca wrote:
I still do not understand how a mandate to deposit NIH-financed
articles into the NIH repository interferes with the development
of IR's. But I believe I know why I do not understand: there is
nothing
