Re: Brisbane declaration on Open Access (fwd)

2008-10-10 Thread Arthur Sale
Totally agree Sally, it is worth pointing out. Actually the primary Version of Record for a print journal is normally the paper article (not electronic at all and on varying paper sizes dependent on country and publisher), and an electronic VoR file is a derived Version of Record usually

Publisher Constraints and the Version of Record

2008-10-10 Thread Stevan Harnad
Forwarding some more wise words from the Antipodean Archivangelist, Arthur Sale, about the Brisbane Declaration and why the OA IR deposit draft should be the author's final refereed preprint rather than the publisher's version of record: -- Forwarded message -- List-Post:

Open Access and the Skewness of Science: It Can't Be Cream All the Way Down

2008-10-10 Thread Stevan Harnad
Open Access and the Skewness of Science: It Can't Be Cream All the Way Down http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/474-guid.html Young NS, Ioannidis JPA, Al-Ubaydli O (2008) Why Current Publication Practices May Distort Science. PLoS Medicine Vol. 5, No. 10, e201

Canada's 4th Green Open Access Mandate, Planet's 55th

2008-10-10 Thread Stevan Harnad
National Cancer Institute of Canada (CANADA* funder-mandate) Institution's/Department's OA Eprint Archives Institution's/Department's OA Self-Archiving Policy Effective July 2009, all researchers supported in whole or in part through the NCIC are required to make their published results of NCIC

UK's 19th Green Open Access Mandate, Scotland's 4th, Planet's 56th

2008-10-10 Thread Stevan Harnad
University of Glasgow (UK* funder-mandate) Institution's/Department's OA Eprint Archives Institution's/Department's OA Self-Archiving Policy The policy policy requires staff to deposit: -- electronic copies of peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings --

Open Access Book-Impact and Demotic Metrics

2008-10-10 Thread Stevan Harnad
For full text click here  SUMMARY: Unlike with OA's primary target, journal articles, the deposit of the full-texts of books in Open Access Repositories cannot be mandated, only encouraged. However, the deposit of book metadata + plus + reference-lists can and should be mandated. That will create