Re: Institutional Mandates and Institutional OA Repository Growth

hed fact rather than a hypothesis with some evidence in support of it yet hardly overwhelming evidence at this point in time. Sandy Thatcher Penn State University Press > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Sandy Thatcher wrote: > > > Ah, yes, and if you'll remember our prior discussion about o

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

nificant, admittedly. Sandy Thatcher At 4:01 PM + 11/12/12, Frederick Friend wrote: I read Martin Hall's defence of the Finch Group Recommendations very carefully, because one curious feature of this episode in the development of open access in the UK is the way in which previously

[GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] Rockefeller University Press editorial on a practical way to meet OA mandates

need more experimentation to determine what effect that short an embargo might have on subscriptions to journals in that sector. Editors of British history journals who have spoken out do not think it is a long enough time. Sandy Thatcher At 9:48 AM -0700 3/11/13, Heather Morrison wrote: >T

[GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] 1st-Party Give-Aways vs. 3rd-Party Rip-Offs

It will likely be a subject of much discussion in the forthcoming hearings in Congress over comprehensive reform of copyright law. Sandy Thatcher At 10:37 AM -0400 8/7/13, Stevan Harnad wrote: If supplying eprints to requesters could be <https://theconversation.com/neuroscientists-need

[GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] Fool's Gold: Publisher Ransom for Freedom from Publisher Embargo?

Stevan is absolutely right on this point, and it behooves publishers who operate hybrid journals to make their finances transparent. Otherwise, there will always remain the suspicion that the publishers are double-dipping. Sandy Thatcher At 7:40 AM -0400 10/25/13, Stevan Harnad wrote

[GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] Big Deals, Big Macs and Consortial Licensing

hus I believe Stevan is not being quite pragmatic enough in recognizing that the time has arrived for OA monograph publishing also, not just OA article publishing. Sandy Thatcher At 12:44 PM -0500 11/19/13, Stevan Harnad wrote: Ann Okerson (as <http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/ann-ok

[GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] Is this the real future of scholarly communication?

acknowledged to be the place to look for cutting-edge work, not the law journals, which in thids field were never peer-reviewed anyway. Sandy Thatcher At 5:22 PM -0800 12/17/13, Eric F. Van de Velde wrote: Check Paul Krugman's recent blog post on scholarly communication in economics...

Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] BLOG: Is CC-BY really a problem or are we boxing shadows?

understanding of what the term means. Sandy Thatcher At 12:11 PM + 3/3/16, Danny Kingsley wrote: Dear all, You might be interested in the outcomes of a roundtable discussion held at Cambridge University earlier this week on the topic of Creative Commons Attribution licences. Is CC

Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] BLOG: The case for Open Research: the mismeasurement problem

anyone know how widely adopted this practice has become? Sandy Thatcher At 3:25 PM +0100 7/11/16, Danny Kingsley wrote: Hello all, The first in a series of blogs about 'The case for Open Research' went live today. The case for Open Research: the mismeasurement problem

Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] Question about changing 'esteem' value of journals

ither, however. Sandy Thatcher At 8:32 AM +0100 10/9/16, Danny Kingsley wrote: Hi all, This is a question that comes up every now and then with researchers. You spend all your career publishing in the 'Journal of X' because it is the fancy-pants journal of your discipline. The citation

Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] OA Overview January 2017

Great to have this good summary of your overall argument about OA. I'm copying it into a Word file and keeping it in my database of valuable resources! :) Happy New Year! At 7:13 AM -0500 1/9/17, Stevan Harnad wrote: On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 5:30 AM, David Prosser <

RE: Provostial Publishing: a return to circa 1920

d by the good work of unheralded copyeditors working behind the scenes. To protect its reputation, Harvard might find itself having to hire copyeditors itself to spruce up the articles before they get posted, or at least proofreaders who could remove the most egregious errors and typos. Sandy Thatcher Penn State University Press

RE: Provostial Publishing: a return to circa 1920

There is much that I would like to debate with you, Stevan, in your reply to my post, e.g., the role that usage statistics and quantified metrics in general should play in assessing the importance and value of scholarship (much overrated, in my opinion), but I'll just focus here on this one ass

Re: STM Publisher Briefing on Institution Repository Deposit Mandates

Stevan whence his high degree of confidence in this claim derives. Nothing in my experience, or that of other editors I have asked, bears it out. Sandy Thatcher Penn State University Press >Two members of STM have kindly, at my request, allowed me to see a >copy of the STM Briefing on IRs a

Re: Changing the game

scholarly communication just ends up costing more overall (and we should also take into account all those hidden subsidies provided for university-based OA journals that do not charge fees), what then? Has the game really changed or just readjusted the pieces on the chessboard? Sandy Thatcher Penn State Univer

Re: Rights Reductio Ad Absurdum

I'm afraid I don't see what is incoherent about Elsevier's policy. It certainly does NOT have the meaning attributed to it by "Dixit," who seems to be the one confused here. Sandy Thatcher At 8:44 PM -0500 1/10/11, Stevan Harnad wrote: >** Cross-posted ** > >

[GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] RE: Simple Explanation of the Green Road

ed for breach of contract.) I don't see much here that Stevan harnad, for example, has not said many times--including the use of the eprint request button. Sandy Thatcher At 11:17 AM -0600 9/24/12, Beall, Jeffrey wrote: I found the advice given in this "explanation" to be cava