Re: new faculty and IR publications

2008-08-25 Thread Stevan Harnad
Another personal opinion: (1) Deposit all refereed journal postprints, of all institutional researchers, in the IR. (2) If the publisher is Green on some OA repository or other (regardless of whether institutional or central), consider it Green, simpliciter, and set access in the IR as OA imm

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

2008-08-25 Thread Ulrich Herb
Dear Stevan, dear all, a short comment from Germany: Saarland University and State Library holds the Special Subject Collection Psychology which is part of an information system for the supra-regional literature supply in Germany. Therefore we launched a disciplinary repository for psychological

Re: Self-Archiving Mandate: European Union's 7th Framework Programme

2008-08-25 Thread N . Miradon
It is indeed very welcome that the European Commission is going to "test open access for a variety of disciplines" [1]. This test of open access is going to be pretty big, covering 10 billion euros-worth of research. Let us hope that the "test" just evaluates the effects of OA on readership and dis