[GOAL] Re: A reply to Professor Carroll

the assignment/exclusive licence because F is already out there. Like Prof Carroll, I don't expect to add further this debate. Professor Charles Oppenheim From: Michael Carroll mcarr...@wcl.american.edu To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) goal@eprints.org Cc

[GOAL] A reply to Professor Carroll

Professor Carroll has completely misrepresented me. As I made clear in my point 1, no-one can adapt or amend F without the publisher's permission. His misrepresentation must have been as a result of one of three things: (a) Prof Carroll never read my piece; (b) he read it and deliberately

[GOAL] Re: Planning for the Open Access Era

Peter is correct that there is a fourth way to achieve OA, and Sally is right that each of them has costs, though in Peter's volunteer effort scenario, the costs are largely hidden. Can I go back to my snooze now please? Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim --- On Tue, 7/8/12, Sally Morris sa

[GOAL] Interesting Gold initiative by Royal Society of Chemistry

at various scenarios as we begin the lengthy transition to open access.”The source is the Times Higher Education Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] Fw: Inaugural Issue of Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication Released!

Interesting - an OA journal about OA research! Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim --- On Wed, 16/5/12, Marisa L. Ramirez mrami...@calpoly.edu wrote: From: Marisa L. Ramirez mrami...@calpoly.edu Subject: Inaugural Issue of Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

[GOAL] Re: UK Defamation Bill and OA

totally agree! Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim --- On Mon, 14/5/12, Pippa Smart pippa.sm...@gmail.com wrote: From: Pippa Smart pippa.sm...@gmail.com Subject: [GOAL] Re: UK Defamation Bill and OA To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) goal@eprints.org Date: Monday, 14 May, 2012, 11

[GOAL] UK Defamation Bill and OA

??). This is something that scholarly publishers will no doubt pick up on as an argument against unrefereed green OA. Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim [ Part 2: Attached Text ] ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman

[GOAL] Re: Willett's Speech in Support of OA

An excellent suggestion from Andrew.  Who would be willing to approach Willetts to set up a meeting? Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim --- On Thu, 3/5/12, Andrew A. Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp wrote: From: Andrew A. Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Subject: [GOAL] Re: Willett's Speech

[GOAL] Re: Willett's Speech in Support of OA

Thanks, Les.  Can you provide us with feedback after the meeting? Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim --- On Thu, 3/5/12, Les A Carr l...@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote: From: Les A Carr l...@ecs.soton.ac.uk Subject: [GOAL] Re: Willett's Speech in Support of OA To: Global Open Access

[GOAL] Re: what is a suitable CC license for an scholarly open access journal

ND doesn't stop people building on the output;  but it does stop them amending it, so any reproduction must be of the text verbatim. Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim --- On Thu, 26/4/12, Sridhar Gutam gutam2...@gmail.com wrote: From: Sridhar Gutam gutam2...@gmail.com Subject

[GOAL] Research Works Act withdrawn

according to?http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2012/March/research-works-act-dead-open-access-NIH.asp I hope Elsevier has learned a lesson from this sorry saga... Charles ? Professor Charles Oppenheim -- next part -- An HTML

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier steps away from the Research Works Act

In my view, the damage to Elsevier's reputation is not going to be easily repaired by a half-hearted apology like this. ?It should have come completely clean and admitted it had made a terrible mistake by supporting RWA. Charles ? Professor Charles Oppenheim

[GOAL] Nice blog post on OA

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/feb/10/parable-farmers-teleporting-duplicator?CMP=twt_gu Very nice analogy! Charles ? Professor Charles Oppenheim -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal

[GOAL] Re: Research Works Act, HR3699

Arthur's overall argument. Charles ? Professor Charles Oppenheim From: Arthur Sale ahjs at ozemail.com.au To: 'Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)' goal at eprints.org Sent: Friday, 13 January 2012, 1:50 Subject: [GOAL] Research Works Act, HR3699

Government White Paper on OA

-1387-innovation-a nd-research-strategy-for-growth.pdf Charles   Professor Charles Oppenheim

Re: The affordability problem vs. the accessibility problem

, and post in a repository, OR submit the article to a prestigious OA journal like PLoS. Charles   Professor Charles Oppenheim From: Andrew A. Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp To: american-scientist-open-access-fo

Re: ScieCom info June 2011

the very strange use of the word agreeable (does Alicia really mean acceptable but is afraid to use that word?),  I don't believe it has always been thus. In any case, as Stevan has pointed out, this (revised?) policy is in practice both unrealistic and unenforceable. Charles Professor Charles

Re: Rights Reductio Ad Absurdum

Yes indeed, that it what I use with Elsevier.  The company does not advertise the fact, but it has this  licence available to anyone who asks for it. Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim --- On Tue, 11/1/11, Alma Swan a.s...@talk21.com wrote: From: Alma Swan a.s...@talk21.com

Re: Rights Reductio Ad Absurdum

law (UK law at least and I suspect the rest of the world), my revised contract was the one that applied.  I suspect they never noticed the change in wording, but that's their problem, not mine. I commend that approach. Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim --- On Sun, 9/1/11, Hélène.Bosc hbosc

Re: Rights Reductio Ad Absurdum

as well! Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim --- On Mon, 10/1/11, Andrew A. Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp wrote: From: Andrew A. Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Subject: Re: Rights Reductio Ad Absurdum To: American Scientist Open Access Forum american-scientist-open-access-fo

Re: Rights Reductio Ad Absurdum

University is one place I will not be recommending anyone to study at. The solution is clear.  DON'T ENTER INTO THAT CONTRACT IN THE FIRST PLACE!  That approach is both legal and ethical, unlike Professor Adams'. Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim --- On Fri, 7/1/11, Andrew A. Adams

Re: Rights Reductio Ad Absurdum

to allow for such a case to be made.  That's a far more sensible approach than recommending people to sign a contract and then to breach it. Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim --- On Fri, 7/1/11, CHARLES OPPENHEIM c.oppenh...@btinternet.com wrote: From: CHARLES OPPENHEIM c.oppenh

Re: UK's HEFCE Squandering Its Credibility and Assets In Research Assessment

Having worked for Thomson companies in the past I can confirm that Thomson leaves them very much to their own devices and makes no effort to get them to follow a party line. In any case, all Evidence is doing is an analysis of the REF Pilot, not the main REF itself. contracts for running the

Re: Copright rarely exclusive

Sorry, but many publishers require assignment, which is not a licence to publish but complete transfer of the copyright. Then it IS like selling your house or car! Moral Rights exist in some countries, but not all. in any case, if you retain your Moral Rights but have assigned copyright, you get

Re: Doctoral Thesis on Open Access Advantage Receives Emerald/EFMD Highly Recommended Award

Apologies to all for this failure, rather ironic under the circumstances. I do routinely put my articles on the Loughbrough IR, but somehow both the article and the thesis have been overlooked. My fault entirely. I will arrange for the thesis and/or article to be put on Loughborough University

Re: OA Publishing is OA, but OA is Not OA Publishing

The thing I find equally annoying is the way people assume author-pays Gold OA = OA. When they criticise its peer review (allegedly poor or non-existent) or the excessive $3,000 per submission cost disenfranchising those who cannot afford it and so on, they are referring to a small (albeit

Re: RE�: Re: Harnad's faulty thinking on OA deposit and APA policy

This discussion reminds me of the debates between the Peoples Liberation Front for Judea and the Judean Peoples Liberation Front in the film Life of Brian. As long as the deposited material is searchable using OAI-PMH, I, as a user, am indifferent what repository it sits in. Funders are entitled

Re: Citation statistics

correctly and fails to cite Ton van Raan, THE expert on the subject. Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim Head Department of Information Science Loughborough University Loughborough Leics LE11 3TU Tel 01509-223065 Fax 01509 223053 e mail c.oppenh...@lboro.ac.uk -Original Message

Re: UK Select Committee Inquiry into Scientific Publication

My apologies. They must have recently changed the rules about Government obligation to respond. Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim Department of Information Science Loughborough University Loughborough Leics LE11 3TU 01509-223065 (fax) 01509-223053 - Original Message - From: Terry ,Mr

Re: UK Select Committee Inquiry into Scientific Publication

will happen, as the issues raised are not high on the UK Government's agenda. But the Report will nonetheless make interesting reading, and will provide ammunition for anyone who cares to make use of selected sentences from it! Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim Department of Information Science

Re: Project RoMEO Listing of Journal Copyright Agreements

applaud him. Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim Department of Information Science Loughborough University Loughborough Leics LE11 3TU 01509-223065 (fax) 01509-223053 - Original Message - From: Markus Schneider m_g_schnei...@hotmail.com To: american-scientist-open-access-fo

Re: Distance Learning and Copyright

is being created. This seems to me to be equitable. What is more contentious is if the employer sells the distance learning material and makes a lot of money from it, then the member(s) of staff involved in its creation should get some payment above their salaries. Charles Professor Charles

Re: UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) review

, soft science and humanities; not sure if any studies have been done in engineering subjects though. Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim Department of Information Science Loughborough University Loughborough Leics LE11 3TU 01509-223065 (fax) 01509-223053

Re: Garfield: Acknowledged Self-Archiving is Not Prior Publication

The law does not recognize moral ownership may be true in a backward (in Moral Rights terms) country like the USA, but Moral Rights are enshrined in the law of many countries of the world. Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim Department of Information Science Loughborough University

Re: Copyright: Form, Content, and Prepublication Incarnations

engines only cover a minute proportion of all the Web pages out there. Professor Charles Oppenheim Dept of Information Science Loughborough University Loughborough Leics LE11 3TU Tel 01509-223065 Fax 01509-223053

Re: Copyright: Form, Content, and Prepublication Incarnations

to confirm that someone can assign or license copyright that (s)he lawfully owns to a third party irrespective of what (s)he has done with the materials up until the copyright assignment/licence is signed. Professor Charles Oppenheim Dept of Information Science Loughborough University Loughborough

Re: Copyright: Form, Content, and Prepublication Incarnations

I confirm Stevan's interpretation is correct. it is also worth noting that the publishers' copyright in layout and typography is, in the UK at least, confined to print publication only and does not refer to any electronic form. Professor Charles Oppenheim Dept of Information Science

Re: PostGutenberg Copyrights and Wrongs for Give-Away Research

necessarily be set in other countries. The decision certainly strengthens the hand of authors in their negotiations with publishers. Professor Charles Oppenheim Dept of Information Science Loughborough University Loughborough Leics LE11 3TU Tel 01509-223065 Fax 01509-223053

Re: Zen response to e-Archiving Challenge

to do with academics' earning power. Albert's other points were so off topic, there is no point in responding to them. Professor Charles Oppenheim Dept of Information Science Loughborough University Loughborough Leics LE11 3TU Tel 01509-223065 Fax 01509-223053

Re: Establishing Priority for Patents

of. But the principles behind it are clear and hundreds of thousands of patents are safely filed under the Convention every year. Professor Charles Oppenheim Dept of Information Science Loughborough University Loughborough Leics LE11 3TU Tel 01509-223065 Fax 01509-223053

Re: Establishing Priority for Patents

. Professor Charles Oppenheim Dept of Information Science Loughborough University Loughborough Leics LE11 3TU Tel 01509-223065 Fax 01509-223053

Re: Invoking Cloture (Again) on Serials Crisis = Library Underfunding

I shouldn't have let it resurge yet again. Apologies. No need to apologise - every time Henderson spills more ink, he dammns himself even more. Professor Charles Oppenheim Dept of Information Science Loughborough University Loughborough Leics LE11 3TU Tel 01509-223065 Fax 01509-223053

Re: Rename Forum: Author Auto-Archiving Forum

I would be sorry to lose Stevan as moderator. He keeps the discussion flowing along, and I don't see a problem with a moderator with strong views, so long as (s)he doesn't actually stop people posting messages that (s)he happens to disagree with. Professor Charles Oppenheim Dept of Information