Re: Optimizing OA Self-Archiving Mandates

2007-12-05 Thread Jan Szczepanski
ership rights. > > OA (and Creative Commons provisions) rest on this kind of thinking. > > I hope this clarifies the point for you. > > Best, > > Jean-Claude Guédon > > Le mardi 04 décembre 2007 ? 08:45 +0100, Jan Szczepanski a écrit : > > I would recommend

Re: OA's Problem Is Not Funding But Keystrokes: Solution Is Mandates

2008-02-18 Thread Jan Szczepanski
Dear Klaus! Thank You for making these observations! Sometimes it's hard to breath when one reads Harnads mechanical same answer to every problem. Life is complicated without any easy solutions. I think that Harnads advice for making peace in Palestine, Afghanistan, Irak or Sudan would be "put

Re: Off-line Vote

2008-10-08 Thread Jan Szczepanski
unnecessary and totally inappropriate. > > Barbara -- De åsikter som framförs här är mina personliga och inte ett uttryck för Göteborgs universitets- biblioteks hållning Opinions expressed here are my own and not that of Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek Jan Szczepanski Förste bibliot

Re: Is the "request copy" button good for OA?

2010-02-04 Thread Jan Szczepanski
är mina personliga och inte ett uttryck för Göteborgs universitets- biblioteks hållning Opinions expressed here are my own and not those of the Gothenburg University Library Jan Szczepanski Förste bibliotekarie Goteborgs universitetsbibliotek Box 222 SE 405 30 Goteborg, SWEDEN Tel: +46 31 7861164 Fax: +46 31 163797 E-mail: jan.szczepan...@ub.gu.se

Re: Is the "request copy" button good for OA?

2010-02-17 Thread Jan Szczepanski
Andrew A. Adams wrote: >> From: Jan Szczepanski >> Subject: Re: Is the "request copy" button good for OA? >> >> The problem with the green way is mainly that it is a parasitic and has >> no life of it's own. >> More like a virus. The way

Re: Interview with Rector of University of Liege

2011-06-10 Thread Jan Szczepanski
tory. >>> >>> To encourage compliance, the University announced that depositing >>> papers in the repository was henceforth the sole mechanism for >>> submitting them to be considered when researchers underwent >>> performance review. Work not posted in

[GOAL] Re: Hat Tip: Let's not leave Humanities behind in the dash for open access

2012-07-25 Thread Jan Szczepanski
Is more than sixteen thousand free e-journals in the humanities and social sciences of any importance in this discussion? http://www.scribd.com/Jan%20Szczepanski Jan 2012/7/25 : > Webster concisely articulates the concerns that I briefly mooted a few > days ago. > Larry Hurtado > > Quoting Om

[GOAL] Re: Update on Ulrichs estimate of total number of active peer-reviewed journals: 55, 311

2012-08-03 Thread Jan Szczepanski
You will find 8,004 "Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages" in DOAJ and nearly 36.000 in Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek and my own list covering humanities and social sciences mostly, more than 16.000. Ulrich is not th

[GOAL] Re: Planning for the Open Access Era

2012-08-07 Thread Jan Szczepanski
Steven Harnad has had and still has an enormous influence on the open access question. But the way he pushes for has, sorry to say, in practice shown not to be able to compet with the market. That is a fact that the British government now recogineses and the rest of the world will follow. The Grea

[GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] Re: Martin Hall's Defence of the UK Finch Committee Recommendations: Green or Gold? Open Access After Finch

2012-11-13 Thread Jan Szczepanski
Maybe not as professional as the university presses but still, new publishers are popping up as musroms these days and then we have ten of thousands of free e-journals. Maybe most of them are not cutting edge but still many are. OA is important as the British government has shown. There is no way

[GOAL] Re: Wikipedia founder to help in [UK] government's research scheme

2012-05-02 Thread Jan Szczepanski
I wrote a piece a couple of years ago and compared the archives with the backyard steel furnaces during the Big Leap in China. At last an European government has the courage to change all that. We can expect a modern steel industry that will have a global impact. We time of the evangelist is at la

Re: US University OA Resolutions Omit Most Important Component

2005-05-05 Thread Jan Szczepanski. Goteborgs Univ Bibl
force people into the communist heaven. Maybe scientists are sceptical when their employer makes something compulsary. Scientists just trust other scientists. That is the problem with the green way. Sincerely Yours Jan Jan Szczepanski Frste bibliotekarie Goteborgs universitetsbibliotek Box 222 SE