Re: Publishers with Paid Options for Open Access

2008-09-03 Thread Alma Swan
On 03/09/2008 17:03, "Peter Millington" wrote: While author's final post-refereed draft is sufficient and acceptable for open access and research purposes, it is not the best. The best is the published version (publisher's PDF if you will). But it definitely isn't the best for text-mining purpos

Re: Fwd: Publishers with Paid Options for Open Access

2008-09-03 Thread Peter Millington
It is a pity that Prof. Harnad is only interested in "default" and "sufficient" options, and not in the best options, or indeed the most appropriate options.   While author's final post-refereed draft is sufficient and acceptable for open access and research purposes, it is not the best. The best i

Re: Fwd: Publishers with Paid Options for Open Access

2008-09-03 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Peter Millington wrote: It is a pity that Prof. Harnad is only interested in "default" and "sufficient" options, and not in the best options, or indeed the most appropriate options.   While author's final post-refereed draft is sufficient and acceptable for open

Re: Fwd: Publishers with Paid Options for Open Access

2008-09-03 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Peter Millington wrote: It is a pity that Prof. Harnad is only interested in "default" and "sufficient" options, and not in the best options, or indeed the most appropriate options.   While author's final post-refereed draft is sufficient and acceptable for open

Re: Publishers with Paid Options for Open Access

2008-09-03 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 3-Sep-08, at 12:42 PM, McGrath, Andria wrote: AM: "It may be foolishness on the part of the funders, but I'm afriad it is the case that ALL the UK medical funders do insist that articles reporting research funded by them are posted on UK PubMedCentral within 6 months." I have a simple soluti

Fwd: Publishers with Paid Options for Open Access

2008-09-03 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 3-Sep-08, at 8:57 AM, c.oppenh...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: > Stevan misunderstands the purpose of SHERPA/ROMEO.  It is there to report > publishers' terms and conditions, to help authors decide where to place their > articles.  To argue that it should not list those publishers that are not "green" >

Re: Publishers with Paid Options for Open Access

2008-09-03 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 3-Sep-08, at 6:57 AM, Jane H Smith, SHERPA, wrote: > http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/PaidOA.html > > Where a publishers' standard policy does not allow an author to comply > with their funding agency's mandate, paid open access options may enable >an author to comply. On no account should any au