, with links
to cometary by yours truly, on the inetbib archive.
https://www.inetbib.de/listenarchiv/msg67546.html
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economic circumstances surrounding its production
* some initial conditions
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gained from doing but also
from storing, organising, and reviewing it. Libraries ought to have
pressed that case a long time ago.
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. It's
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at this repository based
infrastructure. That's why the first mandate failed. The resources
available for repositories were a pittance compared to what the
proprietary publishers got, so the repositories could not compete.
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ee things: zilch, nada, and sweet fa.
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on better.
I'm not closely following Plan S but I tend to agree. Open access
has the risk of making commercial intermediation even more expensive
than toll-gated access ever was.
> We are continuing to actively work against efforts to return control of
> publishing to the academic
otentially making OA more expensive than subscriptions.
But I am not worried yet, because Plan S would only cover funded
research, and it calls for a cap.
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fully spent building open access tools and/or
data.
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> I am thrilled
Is anybody else thrilled?
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Registry since 2003. The domain was
originally intended for non-profit entities, but this restriction was
not enforced and has been removed."
Where is your evidence that .org domain implies a non-commercial
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diture goes
to subscriptions.
> Ceding to the siren call of predators
Libraries seem to continue to cede to the calls of a self-appointed
arch-evangelist who insists that subscriptions must be paid for
until 100% of OA is achieved.
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t your papers up at the MPRA
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/
And get in touch with re...@repec.org if you want to sponsor us.
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r were all to die shortly after
publication. Then yes, it may be reasonable to ask the library to
purchase a copy of the paper from the non-OA publisher. But there
rare instances should not be used to justify the expense of
subscriptions.
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> such strange hobby horses?
I think this list would be better served discussing issues
rather than people.
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Stevan Harnad writes
> 1. Actually, no one really knows why it is taking so long to reach the
> optimal and inevitable outcome -- universal OA --
oh I know. It's because libraries are spending money on subscriptions.
And as long as they do, OA remains evitable.
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library-made problem.
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n lead to people dying,
but an error on the 17th page of a 22-page theoretical mathematical
proof is probably not that problematic.
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Use https://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/registration/ to register.
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look forward to meeting you all in Geneva in June.
For the OAI9 Organising Committee with cheers,
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rs have gone through "peer-review" whatever that means.
I have created such a service for RePEc at http://nep.repec.org.
I want to work on creating similar services for areas other than
economics.
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lists the Twitter feed and
hashtag for the meeting.
On behalf of the OAI9 Programme Committee, I look forward to seeing
you in the University of Geneva to hear news of current developments
in scholarly communication.
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low that, at current speed, we can wait for centuries to achieve
open access. In the meantime, the publishing industry can use the
subscription revenue bonanza to effectively lobby for any change to
be on its terms.
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top it is to cancel subscriptions. Faculty
who have not made their work open access just don't deserve it to
be read or cited.
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pecific to Elsevier when other publishers
are just as expensive.
The only ones who have clout here are libraries. They can cancel
subscriptions. It's the only message publishers will understand.
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Friend, Fred writes
> I am sorry to be cynical, but the academic community gets the
> contracts it deserves. We have to learn to say "no" and really mean
> it.
Say "no" to what? And how will you make sure what you say is matched
by what you do?
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nd/or allows to improve institutional visibility. And it is
beneficial globally as it increases incentives for academics to make
papers available in IRs or with open access publishers because
otherwise they loose more impact.
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Again, you can surely suggest this but I don't see why funding
agencies would have incentives to take up your suggestions.
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e subscriptions decline the better for OA.
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links would give them advertizing. We never got anywhere with them.
When I became aware of Aaron's actions I was pleased this may
raise awareness of JSTOR's locking away historic scholarly contents
behind their firewall with no prospects of ever releasing it.
32354-searching-with-the-public-api
An API is not the same thing as a stock of data that is freely
available. For example CrossRef also has an API, you can conduct
searches but you will never know if/when you have the complete data.
Neither ORCID nor CrossRef are open access.
Ch
to ORCID members. ORCID say
there will be some dump of some data made available on an annual
basis. That's not enough to build a service on the data that
require bulk instantaneous access to the data.
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by enhancing
> the accessibility of OA content and not just that of commercial
> publishers and content providers.
ORCID itself is not an open access initiative. It's a step backwards.
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rs who have for many years extraordinary profits from
material they obtained for free and that was reviewed for them for
free. Surely the amounts wasted on open access publishing dwarf the
sum spent on library subscriptions to buy access to articles that
nobody ever seems to cite, so probably
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IRs appears insignificant to the amount spent a subscriptions. It
just is not fair to compare both approaches. But that's precise what
the Finch report is doing.
> L'appétit vient en mangeant...
On ne fait pas d'omelette sans cass
in its IR?
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ir repositories.
Of course it also collectively irrational for the whole university
sector to buy back its output that it has given away for free. That
irrationality is well understood. The individual irrationality of
subscription is less well understood, as Stevan's
Stevan Harnad writes
> Some humble advice for institutions and libraries:
>
> Negotiate with publishers about subscription price.
Some not so humble advice: cut subscriptions.
Spent a part of the savings building the institutional
repository.
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rnals to open access. Thus the
aggreate effect of journal subscription cancellations on access is
not clear. And remember, access through subscription is only one way
to provide articles. You could also purchase them on a one-to-one
basis.
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rnals to open access. Thus the
aggreate effect of journal subscription cancellations on access is
not clear. And remember, access through subscription is only one way
to provide articles. You could also purchase them on a one-to-one
basis.
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unproven as David's, of course.
Now back to bed...
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Now back to bed...
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ons."
Finally somebody agrees with what I have been saying for years. It
is libraries, rather than publishers or researchers, that hold back
open access.
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ons."
Finally somebody agrees with what I have been saying for years. It
is libraries, rather than publishers or researchers, that hold back
open access.
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http://a
about the
conference at http://uniqueids.org.
If you wish to contact the organizers write to Eleonora Dagiene, Chair
of Council, Director of VGTU Press, eleonora at serials.lt.
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ut if Green
> OA is not reducing the cost of the other, it just adds to the total cost.
It is time to reduce expenditure on the former to build the latter.
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htt
uploads a new
paper. But discussing details here would be too technical.
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of the paper was a permissions
issue. Their official version was a technical error.
ECDL still publish with Springer, without open access. Yet
the same people who go to ECDL hang around the open access meetings.
I guess it is a case of "do what I say, don't do what I do".
tistics service of the RePEc digital library
http://repec.org
who has been working on usage statistics for many years now.
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C-IR/
but there may be others.
In general, an "OAI-PHM data users", polite for "OAI-PMH data
exegetes" list is probably a good idea. I'd be happy to run it, but
I don't want to be the only member.
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this is
> happening.
http://visit.oclc.org/t?ctl=26B403F:09562C313F0DE2FB62E0BBD7DFD73DADF544A2D6437664E7&;
asks me to nominate an IP address to receive free access to
OAIster from. Meaning that the IP addresses will no have free access.
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suggest that OAIster will become part of
a toll-gated product. I suspect that the RePEc community will not
be very much amused to see OCLC making a commercial gain on what
RePEc have collected for free use.
What do others think?
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ce.
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Arthur Sale writes
> I totally disagree that researchers should be free to deposit where they
> will.
This one of the basic tennants of academic fredom. Instititutional
mandates reduce that freedom. That's why I, and many other
academics, oppose mandates.
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ense of self-promotion. This is what
makes RePEc archives so successful.
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o an interdisciplary
level. Two of these are the author and institutional registration.
Again this is precisely what I am working on. Thus is the same
way that I have been battling for years to set up RePEc, against
all odds since no such system had been set up, I am now battling to
on th
and then harvesting
> back?)
AFAIK, Google does not accept deposits.
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check that the deposit is there and stays there.
If the university wants a copy they can download it from the
funders' site.
> and conflicts of interest.
What conflicts?
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e creator of RePEc and involved in E-LIS.
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phone: +7 383 330 6813 skype: thomaskrichel
I am the creator of RePEc and involved in E-LIS.
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repositories led to the Santa Fe
> meeting of the OAI.
Your memory is indeed fading.
The Santa Fe meeting was informed by work of a group of authors:
Herbert Van de Sompel, Thomas Krichel, Michael L. Nelson, Patrick
Hochstenbach, Victor M. Lyapunov, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair, Mohamed
K
his gang should do: they should argue
that the university should cancel physics, mathematics,
computer science, economics journals (just to name a few
where de facto open access is very high), and hand over the
money to them so that they can help local author build
high-quality digital
not claim to be the first project of this kind. If the
OAPEN proposers have not studied GAP in some detail,
they failed to do their homework.
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pho
he DFG funded it,
when that money ran out, it went South.
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I am not saying that they will never work. But I hope that
we can agree that, from today's perspective, filling IRs
until we achieve 100% open access will be a very very long
process.
With cheers from Novosibirsk (sunny, -13C),
Thomas Krichel
e I believe that a mandate really can work.
I am not saying that mandates & IRs are wrong, but relying
exclusively on them is failing to realize other opportunities.
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RePEc
omfortable. For a start,
I am in Siberia at this time. ;-)
> that he does not notice that this spontaneous formula has utterly
> failed to generalize to all other disciplines for well over a decade
> now,
I may be dump, but I am not deluded. I do notice.
The problem is that there are not enou
e this.
Disclaimer: I am the founder of RePEc and also do volunteer work
for E-LIS.
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N. Miradon writes
> Thus are battles lost.
How come? Academics have to make their work openly
accessible to make open access work. Waiting for
bureaucrats to act first is just wasting time.
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hat pdftohtml does a reasonable job on their PDF
files. Fortunately, this is easy because pdftohtml is
open source software, just as Eprints is.
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pt the same way
of working since the new medium allows so much more freedom.
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RePEc is not a centralized archive. It is an archival system that
has itself more than 350 archives contributing to it.
CiteSeer is not an archive at all.
Thomas Krichel mailto:kric...@openlib.org
http://openlib.org/
lit.org, 600k records, $$$,
I don't see how EconLit will survive in the longer run.
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mailing list for this purpose, see
http://lists.openlib.org/mailman/listinfo/oai-eprints
I set it up as an outcome of the last CERN OAI workshop.
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Stevan Harnad writes
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Thomas Krichel wrote:
>
> > $1500 per paper should be amply sufficient to fund the
> > publishing operation. I suggest that libraries support other
> > ventures with more moderate charges.
>
> Thomas, did you mean
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services are in the business of community building. The
crucial part, though, it RePEc's author registration service.
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t must
make sure that the transition to open access is demonstrably
rational for each academic, not just collectively
rational for the academic community as a whole. This is
not a trivial task. We need to have freely-available
conventional abstract and indexing data, as
he trick is to get the community involed, in that way you
minimize cost on a central collection. The RePEc collection
illustrates this masterfully.
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er services in the LogEc project. Thus we can furnish researches
with precise data to see how much the papers that they have been
making available are accessed.
With greetings from Minsk, Belarus,
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he success of the
> physicists' centralized disciplinary model suggested that
> centralized, discipline-based self-archiving might be faster, with
> the Physics Arxiv itself perhaps subsuming it all
> http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/16/99/ (Thomas
> Krichel
, some not at all. I can surly imagine a situation
where for legal scholarship you have to pay, but where
physics is free.
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non-OAI papers
RePEc does not index arbinary website, but archive sites.
They have the same functioality as OAI archives, in fact
OAI was modeled after RePEc. The whole OAI concept was
first implemented there.
With greetings from Minsk, Belarus,
Thomas Krichel
problems" have not been solved. By belittling
them, you put yourself in the way of finding a solution.
With greetings from Minsk, Belarus,
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s.
no, it is easier to construct feature-rich datasets out of
disciplinary archives, because some of them will be prepared
with the specifics of an aggregator in mind.
With greetings from Minsk, Belarus,
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their needs are, rather than setting up procedures around
a central institutional archive, The latter is what Clifford Lynch wants.
I don't think that it will work.
With greetings from Minsk, Belarus,
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ly archive contents.
Institutional archives is one way, departmental is another way,
discipline based archiving another, but there is no "right" or
"wrong" way. Whatever way there is discipline-based services will
be a key to providing incentives to scholars.
With greetings from Minsk, Belarus,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
n
function of aggregators, imho. Aggregators are more about
serving the authors of papers. They should be conceived
as instruments to incentivize authors to contribute to
formal archives.
With greetings from Minsk, Belarus,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org
most appropriately,
as a backup, and as gateways to discipline based aggregators,
rather than a primary content holding facilities.
With greetings from Minsk, Belarus,
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ery well-funded will be able
to publish there.
Can anyone tell me how an organization can cash in $9 Million,
over 5 years, and not be able to operate two, presumably
online, journals with this money without charging a submission
fee, for at least the time that the subsidy runs for?
Ch
tschaftswoche, marked green for, a
German Economics magazine and by no intents and purposes
a scholarly journal. Some contents are short full texts,
others are summaries of articles in the magazine, and
some are short news items. But this is by no means
the full contents of the magazine, I
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