Re: Deposit without editor or quality checking

2009-09-24 Thread Stevan Harnad
p On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, J.W.T.Smith wrote: We are coming under pressure to speed up the addition of new items to our repository by academics. We use the EPrints package which has a reviewing stage which means items are deposited in a review area and don't become visible in the public

Re: Deposit without editor or quality checking

2009-09-24 Thread Stevan Harnad
p On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, J.W.T.Smith wrote: We are coming under pressure to speed up the addition of new items to our repository by academics. We use the EPrints package which has a reviewing stage which means items are deposited in a review area and don't become visible in the public

Re: COPE, HOPE and OA

2009-09-24 Thread Steve Hitchcock
For COPE there is another angle to consider, the possible ramping-up of a real 'serials crisis'. Any economic system such as publishing is constrained. Subscription publishing places the constraint on access; open access publishing constrains publication. The former led some time ago to the

Re: Special OAIster Announcement from OCLC

2009-09-24 Thread Peters, Dale
An alternative to the systematic commercialisation of Open Access data, is the formal constitution of COAR: the Confederation of Open Access Repositories, scheduled to take place in Open Access Week 2009. http://www.driver-repository.eu/DRIVER-COAR.html Emerging as the sustainable outcome of

Fwd: Deposit without editor or quality checking

2009-09-24 Thread Stevan Harnad
Begin forwarded message: From: Hugh Glaser h...@ecs.soton.ac.uk List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org Date: 24 septembre 2009 08:38:15 GMT-04:00 To: Stevan Harnad har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk, jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk Subject: Re: Deposit

Fwd: ETD2009 Conference Summary, Proceedings and Video Available Online

2009-09-24 Thread Stevan Harnad
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Hagen jhag...@wvu.edu List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org Date: Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:53 PM Subject: ETD2009 Conference Summary, Proceedings and Video Available Online To: etd2...@pitt.edu Dear Colleagues, Please forgive

Re: UOW's open access research repository reaches one million downloads

2009-09-24 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 24-Sep-09, at 8:12 PM, Gail Ford wrote: Kathleen Cowan wrote: University of Wollongong's open access research repository, Research Online (http://ro.uow.edu.au/), hits the one million download mark. Read more here: http://media.uow.edu.au/news/UOW066204.html is there any way we