[GOAL] Licence of IEEE "Gold OA" papers?

2012-05-12 Thread Brett PTB Mr (PG/R - Electronic Eng)
Hi folks, Does anyone know what the actual licensing is of papers published under the IEEE's "Open Access Fee" Gold OA scheme? It's really not at all clear from browsing IEEE Xplore. Context: I ask because we're currently re-evaluating our list of target journals in preparation for REF, and o

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier's query re: "positive things from publishers that should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized"

2012-05-12 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Stevan Harnad wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012, Alicia Wise (Elsevier Director of Universal Access)  wrote: It will be very helpful in helping researchers to provide -- and their institutions and funders to mandate -- Open Access if Elsevier drops its "y

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier's query re: "positive things from publishers that should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized"

2012-05-12 Thread Jean-Claude Guédon
I object to the notion of sustainable applied to publications for two reasons : 1. Scientific research is unsustainable and has been so since at least the 17th century. 2. Peer-reviewing research results and making resulting version available to all interested is an integral part of the research

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier's query re: "positive things from publishers that should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized"

2012-05-12 Thread Jean-Claude Guédon
I object to the notion of sustainable applied to publications for two reasons : 1. Scientific research is unsustainable and has been so since at least the 17th century. 2. Peer-reviewing research results and making resulting version available to all interested is an integral part of the research

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier's query re: "positive things from publishers that should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized"

2012-05-12 Thread Wise, Alicia (ELS-OXF)
Hi all, I agree that we are mixing up several issues/objectives, and helpfully Keith has identified some of these. I can think of a few others and I suspect there are more strands in this knot which others will hopefully identify. * we are probably conflating needs/practices in different disc

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier's query re: "positive things from publishers that should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized"

2012-05-12 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Sat, May 12, 2012, Alicia Wise (Elsevier Director of Universal Access) wrote: > I agree that we are mixing up several issues/objectives, and helpfully Keith > has identified some of these.  I can think of a few others and I suspect > there are more strands in this knot which others will hop

[GOAL] Re: OA and scholarly publishers

2012-05-12 Thread Rzepa Henry
On 12 May 2012, at 15:37, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > This is a very good summary - as a;ways RP gets to the essence with clarity. > > On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Richard Poynder > wrote: > >> List members will doubtless correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me >> that the nub of this i

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier's query re: "positive things from publishers that should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized"

2012-05-12 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Stevan Harnad wrote: For my part I will continue my narrow focus on the goal of getting OA (sic) universally provided. It had been my (foolish) fancy that that was GOAL's goal too! I am quite happy for the list members, guided by the moderato

[GOAL] Re: OA and scholarly publishers

2012-05-12 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
This is a very good summary - as a;ways RP gets to the essence with clarity. On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Richard Poynder wrote: List members will doubtless correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me that the nub of this issue is that Peter Murray-Rust believes that when a

[GOAL] Re: OA and scholarly publishers

2012-05-12 Thread Arthur Sale
Peter   To what extent does “fair-use” over-ride the publisher wishes? It seems to me that the Australian copyright act is quite clear about using copyright material for criticism, legal purposes, extracting data, etc, but I am not an expert in UK law.   Lawyers could have a good argume

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier's query re: "positive things from publishers that should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized"

2012-05-12 Thread keith . jeffery
All - I have been following the several threads of argument with interest. As I see it recent postings on this list are mixing up several issues/objectives, confusions, mechanisms for access and utilisation and mechanisms to achieve any kind of OA. Issues and Objectives

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier's query re: "positive things from publishers that should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized"

2012-05-12 Thread Dan Brickley
[snip] Thought experiment: what if authors posted to their personal sites, but with enough metadata (e.g. http://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle) for generic (rather than topical/institutional) search engine discovery to be feasible? Dan (hatless) ___ G

[GOAL] Re: OA and scholarly publishers

2012-05-12 Thread Laurent Romary
The discussion is a (very) nice case of procrastination  on the part of the publisher, similar to what some of us have already experienced. A clause allowing full data mining should be a systematic component of any subscription agreement, in particular in the case of big deals or national license

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier's query re: "positive things from publishers that should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized"

2012-05-12 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Stevan Harnad wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2012, Alicia Wise (Elsevier Director of Universal > Access) wrote: > > It will be very helpful in helping researchers to provide -- and their > institutions and funders to mandate -- Open Access if Elsevier drops > its "you

[GOAL] Re: Hotel in Philadelphia

2012-05-12 Thread Richard Poynder
Dear All, I fear a personal message may have been mistakenly posted to the mailing list. Apologies to all concerned. Richard Poynder GOAL Moderator On 12/05/2012 13:22, Rzepa Henry wrote: > Peter, > > As a seasoned traveller, you probably have your favourite guest house in > Philadelphia!

[GOAL] Re: OA and scholarly publishers

2012-05-12 Thread Richard Poynder
List members will doubtless correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me that the nub of this issue is that Peter Murray-Rust believes that when a research library pays a subscription for a scholarly journal (or a collection of journals) the subscription should give researchers at that institution

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier's query re: "positive things from publishers that should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized"

2012-05-12 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Sat, May 12, 2012, Alicia Wise (Elsevier Director of Universal Access) wrote: > I agree that we are mixing up several issues/objectives, and helpfully Keith > has identified some of these.  I can think of a few others and I suspect > there are more strands in this knot which others will hope

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier's query re: "positive things from publishers that should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized"

2012-05-12 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 2012-05-12, at 8:20 AM, Richard Poynder wrote: > List members will doubtless correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me that > the nub of this issue is that Peter Murray-Rust believes that when a research > library pays a subscription for a scholarly journal (or a collection of > journals)

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier's query re: "positive things from publishers that should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized"

2012-05-12 Thread Wise, Alicia (ELS-OXF)
Hi all, I agree that we are mixing up several issues/objectives, and helpfully Keith has identified some of these. I can think of a few others and I suspect there are more strands in this knot which others will hopefully identify. * we are probably conflating needs/practices in different disc

[GOAL] Re: OA and scholarly publishers

2012-05-12 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
[Note that as this is a moderated list my replies may not appear immediately - this may give the impression that I am ignoring mails when I am not]. On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Wise, Alicia (ELS-OXF) wrote: Hi Peter,   Thanks for this.  I’ve communicated that we are

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier's query re: "positive things from publishers that should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized"

2012-05-12 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 2012-05-12, at 8:42 AM, Dan Brickley wrote: > Thought experiment: what if authors posted to their personal sites, but with > enough metadata (e.g. http://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle) for generic (rather > than topical/institutional) search engine discovery to be feasible? 1. If 100% of autho

[GOAL] Re: OA and scholarly publishers

2012-05-12 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Arthur Sale wrote: Peter   To what extent does “fair-use” over-ride the publisher wishes? Inhttp://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/blog/fair-use/lessig-fair-use-and-open-vide o-alliance Lessig reiterates "fair use if the right to call a l

[GOAL] Re: OA and scholarly publishers

2012-05-12 Thread Wise, Alicia (ELS-OXF)
Hi Peter,   Thanks for this.  I’ve communicated that we are happy in principle for you to mine our content, and there are only some practical issues to resolve.  We have successfully concluded the technical discussion, and I believe you, your colleagues, and my technical colleagues are all

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier's query re: "positive things from publishers that should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized"

2012-05-12 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Stevan Harnad wrote: > For my part I will continue my narrow focus on the goal of getting OA > (sic) universally provided. It had been my (foolish) fancy that that was > GOAL's goal too! > > I am quite happy for the list members, guided by the moderator, to decide

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier's query re: "positive things from publishers that should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized"

2012-05-12 Thread keith.jeffery
All - I have been following the several threads of argument with interest. As I see it recent postings on this list are mixing up several issues/objectives, confusions, mechanisms for access and utilisation and mechanisms to achieve any kind of OA. Issues and Objectives

[GOAL] Re: OA and scholarly publishers

2012-05-12 Thread Rzepa Henry
On 12 May 2012, at 15:37, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > This is a very good summary - as a;ways RP gets to the essence with clarity. > > On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Richard Poynder > wrote: > >> List members will doubtless correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me >> that the nub of this i

[GOAL] Re: OA and scholarly publishers

2012-05-12 Thread Reckling, Falk, Dr.
Alicia, Just a simple question: under what conditions Elsevier would be willing to change the business modell from subscriptions to OA? All the best, Falk Von: goal-boun...@eprints.org [goal-boun...@eprints.org]" im Auftrag von "Wise, Alicia (ELS-OXF) [

[GOAL] Re: OA and scholarly publishers

2012-05-12 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
This is a very good summary - as a;ways RP gets to the essence with clarity. On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Richard Poynder wrote: > List members will doubtless correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me > that the nub of this issue is that Peter Murray-Rust believes that when a > research

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier's query re: "positive things from publishers that should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized"

2012-05-12 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 2012-05-11, at 6:47 PM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: Alicia Wise already knows my reply - she has had enough email from me. The publishers should withdraw contractual restrictions on content-mining. That's all they need to do. If Alicia Wise can say "yes" to me unreservedly

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier's query re: "positive things from publishers that should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized"

2012-05-12 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 2012-05-12, at 8:20 AM, Richard Poynder wrote: > List members will doubtless correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me that > the nub of this issue is that Peter Murray-Rust believes that when a research > library pays a subscription for a scholarly journal (or a collection of > journals)

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier's query re: "positive things from publishers that should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized"

2012-05-12 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 2012-05-12, at 8:42 AM, Dan Brickley wrote: > Thought experiment: what if authors posted to their personal sites, but with > enough metadata (e.g. http://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle) for generic (rather > than topical/institutional) search engine discovery to be feasible? 1. If 100% of autho

[GOAL] Re: Hotel in Philadelphia

2012-05-12 Thread Richard Poynder
Dear All, I fear a personal message may have been mistakenly posted to the mailing list. Apologies to all concerned. Richard Poynder GOAL Moderator On 12/05/2012 13:22, Rzepa Henry wrote: > Peter, > > As a seasoned traveller, you probably have your favourite guest house in > Philadelphia!

[GOAL] Re: OA and scholarly publishers

2012-05-12 Thread Laurent Romary
The discussion is a (very) nice case of procrastination on the part of the publisher, similar to what some of us have already experienced. A clause allowing full data mining should be a systematic component of any subscription agreement, in particular in the case of big deals or national licens

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier's query re: "positive things from publishers that should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized"

2012-05-12 Thread Dan Brickley
[snip] Thought experiment: what if authors posted to their personal sites, but with enough metadata (e.g. http://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle) for generic (rather than topical/institutional) search engine discovery to be feasible? Dan (hatless) ___ G

[GOAL] Hotel in Philadelphia

2012-05-12 Thread Rzepa Henry
Peter, As a seasoned traveller, you probably have your favourite guest house in Philadelphia! ACS registration opened yesterday, and from past experience the cheaper (= good value) hotels tend to book out fast. I went through the official ACS hotels; the average is ~$220 + TAX, probably n

[GOAL] Re: OA and scholarly publishers

2012-05-12 Thread Richard Poynder
List members will doubtless correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me that the nub of this issue is that Peter Murray-Rust believes that when a research library pays a subscription for a scholarly journal (or a collection of journals) the subscription should give researchers at that institut

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier's query re: "positive things from publishers that should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized"

2012-05-12 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 2012-05-11, at 6:47 PM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > Alicia Wise already knows my reply - she has had enough email from me. The > publishers should withdraw contractual restrictions on content-mining. That's > all they need to do. > > If Alicia Wise can say "yes" to me unreservedly, I'll be ha

[GOAL] Re: OA and scholarly publishers

2012-05-12 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
[Note that as this is a moderated list my replies may not appear immediately - this may give the impression that I am ignoring mails when I am not]. On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Wise, Alicia (ELS-OXF) wrote: > Hi Peter, > > ** ** > > Thanks for this. I’ve communicated that we are happy

[GOAL] Re: OA and scholarly publishers

2012-05-12 Thread Reckling, Falk, Dr.
Alicia, Just a simple question: under what conditions Elsevier would be willing to change the business modell from subscriptions to OA? All the best, Falk Von: goal-boun...@eprints.org [goal-boun...@eprints.org]" im Auftrag von "Wise, Alicia (ELS-OXF) [

[GOAL] Re: OA and scholarly publishers

2012-05-12 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Arthur Sale wrote: > Peter > > ** ** > > To what extent does “fair-use” over-ride the publisher wishes? > In http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/blog/fair-use/lessig-fair-use-and-open-video-allianceLessig reiterates "fair use if the right to call a lawyer". E

[GOAL] Re: OA and scholarly publishers

2012-05-12 Thread Wise, Alicia (ELS-OXF)
Hi Peter, Thanks for this. I've communicated that we are happy in principle for you to mine our content, and there are only some practical issues to resolve. We have successfully concluded the technical discussion, and I believe you, your colleagues, and my technical colleagues are all happy