[GOAL] Re: Fwd: The Open Access Interviews: Paul Royster

2014-09-19 Thread Stevan Harnad
*I.* A Web-of-Science-based estimate of Green OA mandate effectiveness — i.e., of *the annual percentage of institutional journal article output that is being self-archived in the institutional repository *— is fine. So is one based on SCOPUS, or on any other index of annual journal article output

[GOAL] Re: Fwd: The Open Access Interviews: Paul Royster

2014-09-19 Thread brentier
Liège does not mandate anything, so far as I know; it only looks into the local repository (Orbi) to see what is in it, and it does so to assess performance or respond to requests for promotions or grant submissions. (JC. Guédon) Oh no, Jean-Claude, Liège mandates everything. It is a real

[GOAL] Re: Fwd: The Open Access Interviews: Paul Royster

2014-09-19 Thread Richard Poynder
Dear Bernard, I have two questions if I may: 1. You say that Liège is getting close to 90% compliance. Can you explain how you know that, and how you calculate compliance levels? I ask this because the consistent theme coming through from UK universities with regard to compliance

[GOAL] Re: Fwd: The Open Access Interviews: Paul Royster

2014-09-19 Thread Jean-Claude Guédon
Thank you, Bernard. I should have said, more precisely, that Liège does not force anything; that it has a mandate and that it is backed up, as you point out, by the procedures used for in-house research assessment. This form of enforcement is very different from that of directly applying

[GOAL] Re: Fwd: The Open Access Interviews: Paul Royster

2014-09-19 Thread Jean-Claude Guédon
I will let readers evaluate whether Stevan's answers are satisfactory or not. Except for the Liège mandate where I did not express myself sufficiently precisely, I disagree with points I--III, V-VI. I agree that point VII deserves being studied more precisely. For point VIII, part of the 30%