[GOAL] Re: Speech by Dutch junior minister in Berlin

2014-01-28 Thread Armbruster, Chris
Dekker's speech was remarkable for being clear and concise. It is a long time since someone made the case so well. Chris Von Samsung Mobile gesendet Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: Jeroen Bosman Datum:28.01.2014 23:29 (GMT+01:00) An: goal@eprints.org Betreff: [GOAL] Speech by

[GOAL] Re: Pre-publication peer review (was: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List)

2013-12-10 Thread Armbruster, Chris
Same inkling as Jan Laurent. The way fwd for OAP would be some form of accreditation by repository publisher. One would need to show what review quality assurance mechanism is used, e.g. Pre- Post- Open peer review and demonstrate annually to the accreditation agency that this is what you

[GOAL] Re: Where now for OA in the UK?

2013-11-29 Thread Armbruster, Chris
...@ecs.soton.ac.ukmailto:har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk: On 2013-11-27, at 12:47 PM, Armbruster, Chris chris.armbrus...@eui.eumailto:chris.armbrus...@eui.eu wrote: What puzzles me is that quite a number of OA veterans and advocates keep moaning about the UK OA policy. In your case, Fred, I am intrigued

[GOAL] Re: Where now for OA in the UK?

2013-11-28 Thread Armbruster, Chris
coordination) as well as opportunity costs (e.g. IPR regime maintained, re-use very limited). Chris Am 27.11.2013 um 19:45 schrieb Stevan Harnad har...@ecs.soton.ac.ukmailto:har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk: On 2013-11-27, at 12:47 PM, Armbruster, Chris chris.armbrus...@eui.eumailto:chris.armbrus...@eui.eu wrote

[GOAL] Re: Where now for OA in the UK?

2013-11-27 Thread Armbruster, Chris
What puzzles me is that quite a number of OA veterans and advocates keep moaning about the UK OA policy. In your case, Fred, I am intrigued by the assertion that The Finch saga has done nothing to change the IPR regime through which publishers control the infrastructure, nor is the process

Re: Ranking Web of Repositories: July 2010 Edition

2010-07-08 Thread Armbruster, Chris
Hélène, Institution is indeed not a very precise concept, but the repository ranking will not be improved if one were to spend much time trying to decide which repository is institutional and which is not (e.g. how about also deleting No 10 because it is only a departmental repository?). Also,

AW: Conflating OA Repository-Content, Deposit-Locus, and Central-Service Issues

2009-11-30 Thread Armbruster, Chris
Stevan Harnard wrote: Yet the resolution is a simple one-liner: All research institutions and funders worldwide need to mandate institutional deposit, and then reap the harvest centrally, with search services, subject collections, national collections, language collections, and any other ideal

Re: Institutional vs. Central Repositories (-why this juxtaposition is no longer useful)

2009-11-28 Thread Armbruster, Chris
, with a large variety of items. In Australia, institutional repositories are prominently tied to the national research assessment exercise, with due emphasis on peer reviewed publications. More here: Armbruster, Chris and Romary, Laurent, Comparing Repository Types: Challenges and Barriers for Subject-Based

Re: Comparing repositories - subject-based, institutional, research and national repository systems

2009-11-25 Thread Armbruster, Chris
(or regional) system. Armbruster, Chris and Romary, Laurent, Comparing Repository Types: Challenges and Barriers for Subject-Based Repositories, Research Repositories, National Repository Systems and Institutional Repositories in Serving Scholarly Communication (November 23, 2009). Available at SSRN

Comparing repositories - subject-based, institutional, research and national repository systems

2009-11-23 Thread Armbruster, Chris
you to respond to. We imagine that this new four-fold distinction would help repository managers and stakeholders in improving repository services in a targetted manner. Please answer to the list (or, if you prefer, write to me directly). - Armbruster, Chris and Romary, Laurent, Comparing

Reminder: PEER call for tenders - usage and behavioural research (journals/repositories)

2009-01-26 Thread Armbruster, Chris
Dear colleagues, PEER is a pioneering collaboration between publishers, repositories and the research community, by which at least 16,000 peer reviewed manuscripts destined to become journal articles in ISI ranked journals will be made available for archiving every year for three years. The

Re: Royalty-Seeking on Impact-Seeking Give-Away Content?

2008-11-24 Thread Armbruster, Chris
I have a few ideas about this, based on experience in social science departments at UK universities: - Some years ago ACLS was able to insert itself into the routine and large-scale copying that goes on in higher education teaching; - The amounts of text being photocopied are likely to be

Re: University ranking (and repository content)

2008-08-09 Thread Armbruster, Chris
at the repositories ranking: http://repositories.webometrics.info/ More is available from this 2008 paper: Armbruster, Chris,Access, Usage and Citation Metrics: What Function for Digital Libraries and Repositories in Research Evaluation? Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1088453 Chris

Citation statistics

2008-06-11 Thread Armbruster, Chris
and reliability of many measures, technical faults as well as the misguided judgements of peers, university management, funding agencies and government. My own contribution (working paper) may be found with SSRN: Armbruster, Chris, Access, Usage and Citation Metrics: What Function for Digital Libraries

2008 publications on open access, research universities and the social sciences

2008-06-05 Thread Armbruster, Chris
Deear colleagues, Please find below a summary list of 2008 publications, that have achieved special recognition in being selected for a special issue of Policy Futures in Education. This includes - an argument about the correspondence of innovative moves in the natural and social sciences

Gold OA solutions that are the equivalent of Green OA mandates or better? (working paper available online)

2008-04-11 Thread Armbruster, Chris
law programme with an increasing number of journals. There is potential in this model for emulation and adaptation across research communities. The following working paper sets out the examples: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1106162 Suggested Citation Armbruster, Chris

UCalifornia: Are academic values or institutional policies the obstacle in the switch to OA?

2007-09-14 Thread Armbruster, Chris
from the University Of California [August 2007] http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/responses/activities.html My criticism of the CSHE report is included in the follwing paper: Armbruster, Chris, Society Publishing, the Internet and Open Access: Shifting Mission-Orientation from Content Holding