[GOAL] Re: Status of OUP/ESA copyrights on PDF files of journal articles that were never copyrighted

2016-01-10 Thread Donat Agosti
for US$39.00 Griault deceased May 2, 1941, 75 years ago… Donat Donat Agosti Plazi Web: http://Plazi.org Switzerland From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Walker,Thomas J Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 10:11 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of

[GOAL] Re: Is access to information a human right?

2015-01-06 Thread Donat Agosti
Dear Peter and Chris The right of access to scientific information also played a role in the decision of the Swiss Federal Court in the Case ETHZ vs Elsevier, Springer and Thieme in regards of the document delivery service at the ETHZ. (https://plus.google.com/115599971535973973155/posts/dFYqhJ

[GOAL] ETHZ library accused of having a too liberal document delivery service

2014-04-07 Thread Donat Agosti
Here is an insight from the other side of access: Trying to restrict even a more user friendly document distribution policy of the Swiss ETH library, one of the largest Swiss libraries, by Elsevier, Springer and Thieme. One of the main argument has been that access to the plaintifs article is no

[GOAL] copyright, scientific names compilations of scientific names

2014-02-06 Thread Donat Agosti
Dear colleagues Here is the link to our latest contribution to the ongoing discussion on copyright in the realm of taxonomy: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/7/79/abstract The question we are interested in in this series of studies is where the legal boundaries of copyright are, and wher

[GOAL] Re: new platinum open access

2013-12-20 Thread Donat Agosti
"Overlay-Journal OA," Again<http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/993-.htm> Stevan Harnad On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Donat Agosti mailto:ago...@amnh.org>> wrote: Ultimately you might be right. But I see OA as a process to get open access to our research

[GOAL] Re: new platinum open access

2013-12-20 Thread Donat Agosti
[mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Donat Agosti Sent: 19 December 2013 09:35 To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] new platinum open access Below a success story for our (taxonomists) goal to not only provide open access but also create semantically enhanced

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier, Flip your journals to Gold OA and/or offer an acceptable Hybrid Model

2013-12-20 Thread Donat Agosti
Dear Wouter Though you refer to Wall Street Journal that infers journalistic scrutiny, it is in fact just a press release of Elsevier and thus, isn't this following all the discussion on GOAL only part of the reality? It might be interesting to the readers to link this press release to the pu

[GOAL] open access and SCOAP3 in NZZ

2013-12-19 Thread Donat Agosti
Here is a little contribution to the OA debate and SCOAP3 in the Swiss NZZ Forscher, Bibliotheken und Verleger einigen sich auf Open-Access-Initiative Open Access, also der freie Zugang zu wissenschaftlicher Literatur, wird als eine unumgängliche Basis für eine moderne Wissensgesellschaft angese

[GOAL] new platinum open access

2013-12-19 Thread Donat Agosti
Below a success story for our (taxonomists) goal to not only provide open access but also create semantically enhanced journals based on Taxpub JATS. In this case two old prestigious journals are now published this way. Donat http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-12/pp-tot121813.php

[GOAL] Launch of the open access, semantically enhanced open access journal

2013-09-17 Thread Donat Agosti
ublished papers give the readers an idea about the novel approaches implemented by BDJ and what the journal looks like in general." Best regards Donat Agosti ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

Validity of self-publishing species names: FW: Long-term preservation of Open Access Journals secured

2009-04-01 Thread Donat Agosti
Dear Francesco et al., I think, we need to think about preservation of taxonomic journals the same way we think about nomenclature and taxonomy: As specialists. We do not want to have lawyers, librarians etc prescribe how we deal with animal names or discover species. But this is what we do the w

Re: Re: correction Re: Off-Line Vote on Moderator Change

2008-10-08 Thread Donat Agosti
I agree to support stevan as moderator and those with descenting view starting a new list or contribute it here Donat Originalnachricht Von: sely maria de souza costa Gesendet: 7 Okt 2008 21:37 -03:00 An: Betreff: Re: correction Re: Off-Line Vote on Moderator Change Dear Stev

plazi.org: new repository for taxonomic descriptions

2008-02-26 Thread Donat Agosti
veloped by Donat Agosti, Terry Catapano, Christiana Klingenberg and Guido Sautter, its development is supported by Grants from the US National Science Foundation (to the American Museum of Natural History), the German Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (to University of Karlsruhe) and the Global Bi

Re: copyright and open access in biodiversity publishing

2005-02-26 Thread Donat Agosti
ch in itself is one which includes next to 19,000 names of ants another 150,000 names of bees, wasps etc., and finally is being part of a global database of species of the world (e.g. Global Biodiversity Information Facility). Donat Agosti

copyright and open access in biodiversity publishing

2005-02-26 Thread Donat Agosti
e of the systematics journals are not open access, but rather the opposite, and thus have an adverse effect especially on the conservation of nature. Donat Dr. Donat Agosti Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History and Smithsonian Institution Email: ago...@amnh.org Web: http://

DECLARATION of the International Conference "Information as Libraries"

2004-11-12 Thread Donat Agosti
__ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com Dr. Donat Agosti Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History and Smithsonian Institution Email: ago...@amnh.org Web: http://antbase.org CV: http://research.amnh.org/entomology/social_ins

Re: Evolving Publisher Copyright Policies On Self-Archiving

2004-11-07 Thread Donat Agosti
> P.S. Even for those who are Creative Commons (CC) License advocates > first, and OA advocates only second, your own objectives -- eminently > worthwhile and highly desirable and beneficial as they are -- would be > far better served if you advised those whose first concern is OA for the > 2.5 mil

Re: Evolving Publisher Copyright Policies On Self-Archiving

2004-11-07 Thread Donat Agosti
the further privatizing of the public domain in information. A variety of corrective measures are needed to restore proper balance to the IPR regime. Dr. Donat Agosti Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History and Smithsonian Institution Email: ago...@amnh.org We

Re: A Search Engine for Searching Across Distributed Eprint Archives

2004-10-21 Thread Donat Agosti
0,000 pages. But I believe, we will only get the money to transfer this huge amount of legacy data, if we can provide the best possible access to its body - thus excuse of thinking ahead. Donat Agosti

Re: A Search Engine for Searching Across Distributed Eprint Archives

2004-10-20 Thread Donat Agosti
heir logic content included. Any ideas? All the best, and thanks for all your efforts re open access Donat Dr. Donat Agosti Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History and Smithsonian Institution Email: ago...@amnh.org Web: http://anbase.org CV: http://research.amnh.org/entomology/soci

Re: Open letter to Congress from 25 Nobel Laureates

2004-09-09 Thread Donat Agosti
being widening between North and South (where most of the biodiversity is), as well as between those being part of a wealthy university system and those not. Donat Agosti [Moderator's Note: A simple way to extend the scope of the US/NIH initiative (to mandate the open-access self-archiv