My apologies to you, Stevan, for appearing to ignore you, and the list, since
Monday. The trouble was that when my old email address was edited to the one I
use mostly now, the new address was mangled, and as a result I got no posts from
GOAL. It was only when I tried to post a second time that th
Arthur Sale wrote:
IS THE TITANIUM ROAD A TECHNOLOGICALLY SUPERCHARGED GREEN ROAD?
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Well, if you want to play on words, you can think of it that way. I
wonât. But you had better start thinking of the Gold Road as an
ultimate commercial version of the Green Road
[ARTHUR] It seems that I am back on-list again, so here is a response to another
chunk of Stevanâs response. I find it interesting to argue with Stevan,
because
we are both on the same side of wanting OA as soon as possible and believing it
is well overdue. If I can characterise the debate, Ste
It is my pleasure to announce that the Board of Administrators of the FRS-FNRS
(Fund for Scientific Research in French-speaking Belgium) has officially
decided to use exclusively Institutional Repositories as sources of
bibliographic data in support of grant or fellowship submission (except for
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 1:46 AM, wrote:
It is my pleasure to announce that the Board of Administrators of
the FRS-FNRS (Fund for Scientific Research in French-speaking
Belgium) has officially decided to use exclusively Institutional
Repositories as sources of bibliographic
For the perplexed reader who wonders what on earth two OA advocates -- long on
the same team, and still on the same team -- are disagreeing about: it's just
about where the time and effort of OA advocates is best invested.Â
I am for redoubling efforts to persuade institutions and funders to adopt
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promoting the adoption of Green OA mandates (because I do not believe any
form of voluntarism will get us to 100% OA anywhere near as quickly and
surely as mandates).
Stevan Harnad
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to use an indicator of what the Titanium app will be.
[ARTHUR] I'll stop here because this is already far too long. The rest of
the harangue can wait for another day. I've got halfway through, and it is
tiring to find the flaws in each argument. Keystrokes are not the issue.
This argument does not take OA forward.
Best wishes
Arthur Sale
University of Tasmania, Australia
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It is my pleasure to announce that the Board of Administrators of the FRS-FNRS
(Fund for Scientific Research in French-speaking Belgium) has officially
decided to use exclusively Institutional Repositories as sources of
bibliographic data in support of grant or fellowship submission (except for
hip (EOS)
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at depositing is***
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> "natural."
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> ** **
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> But the real reason for the success is that it is mandatory (in both
> cases).
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> The Titanium Technology may prove quite natural to use, but to get everyone
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> to use it, you would have to mandate it. That's certainly not in the cards.
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> But mandating deposit is.
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> [ARTHUR] Again, you miss the point, Stevan. Sure ETD deposits are
> mandated. But the mandate is easy to get. The students don?t complain
> because it is natural. The executive agree because it is natural.
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> [ARTHUR] I could argue that it would be as easy to get a key executive to
> ?mandate? the provision of a free Titanium Road licence to every
> researcher. No resistance, easy agreement. But I don?t think that is
> necessary. Mendeley is free, to use an indicator of what the Titanium app
> will be.
>
> ** **
>
> [ARTHUR] I?ll stop here because this is already far too long. The rest of
> the harangue can wait for another day. I?ve got halfway through, and it is
> tiring to find the flaws in each argument. Keystrokes are not the issue.
> This argument does not take OA forward.
>
> ** **
>
> Best wishes
>
> ** **
>
> Arthur Sale
>
> University of Tasmania, Australia
>
> ** **
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