[GOAL] Re: G8 Science Ministers endorse open access

2013-06-17 Thread Tim Brody
On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 16:15 -0400, Stevan Harnad wrote: [snip] In backing down on Gold (good), Finch/RCUK, nevertheless failed to provide any monitoring mechanism for ensuring compliance with Green (bad). It only monitors how Gold money is spent. Finch/RCUK also backed down on

[GOAL] Re: Harnad Comments on Proposed HEFCE/REF Green Open Access Mandate

2013-03-21 Thread Tim Brody
Message- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Tim Brody Sent: Tuesday, 19 March 2013 9:19 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Harnad Comments on Proposed HEFCE/REF Green Open Access Mandate Hi Arthur, I

[GOAL] Re: Harnad Comments on Proposed HEFCE/REF Green Open Access Mandate

2013-03-19 Thread Tim Brody
...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Tim Brody Sent: Monday, 18 March 2013 8:45 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Harnad Comments on Proposed HEFCE/REF Green Open Access Mandate On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 08:05 -0400, Stevan Harnad wrote: On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 5

[GOAL] Re: Harnad Comments on Proposed HEFCE/REF Green Open Access Mandate

2013-03-18 Thread Tim Brody
On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 08:05 -0400, Stevan Harnad wrote: On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 5:14 AM, Graham Triggs grahamtri...@gmail.com wrote: 2) By definition, everything that you require to audit Gold is open, baked into the publication process, and independent of who is

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

2012-05-02 Thread Tim Brody
, funders, and the UK and EU governments) -- Tim Brody School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ United Kingdom Email: t...@ecs.soton.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 7698 [ Part 1.2, This is a digitally signed message part ] [ Application/PGP

[GOAL] Re: RCUK Open Access Feedback

2012-03-19 Thread Tim Brody
can take the resource (OA research literature), add value and re-sell it (with suitable attribution) then that can only be to the advantage of authors and readers. -- Tim Brody School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ United Kingdom Email: tdb2

[GOAL] Re: RCUK Open Access Feedback

2012-03-19 Thread Tim Brody
can take the resource (OA research literature), add value and re-sell it (with suitable attribution) then that can only be to the advantage of authors and readers. -- Tim Brody School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ United Kingdom Email: t

Re: OA Archives: Full-texts vs. metadata-only and other digital objects

2005-06-13 Thread Tim Brody
peer-reviewed articles hidden amongst 1000's of powerpoint slides! Sincerely, Tim Brody tdb...@ecs.soton.ac.uk Administrator, Institutional Archives Registry http://archives.eprints.org/

Re: BBC cites a preprint from arXiv

2005-05-24 Thread Tim Brody
Eric F. Van de Velde wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4564477.stm Is this a first? I.e., a major news organization uses unrefereed self-archived preprint as the basis of a news story. Although not a major hard-news story, it was posted on the main page of the BBC news web site.

Re: Open Access vs. NIH Back Access and Nature's Back-Sliding

2005-02-04 Thread Tim Brody
Brian Simboli wrote: (Worries that people will merely use OAIster or google to bring up all the articles for a given issue can be circumvented if the journal title is suppressed in the metadata for the freely available article.) This wouldn't help citation linking, which is already pretty

Re: Elsevier Gives Authors Green Light for Open Access Self-Archiving

2004-06-30 Thread Tim Brody
self-archiving in this way. Tim Brody Southampton University http://citebase.eprints.org/

Re: Scientometric OAI Search Engines

2004-05-05 Thread Tim Brody
an accessible version. Tim Brody Citebase Search: http://citebase.eprints.org/

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2004-04-13 Thread Tim Brody
(and even if they all were, that still wouldn't be nearly enough yet!): http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0023.gif And -- as of March 10 -- Yahoo searches OAIster! See http://www.umich.edu/~urecord/0304/Mar08_04/07.shtml Leo Waaijers (2) Tim Brody (ECS

Re: OAI compliant personal pages

2004-02-10 Thread Tim Brody
://oai.dlib.vt.edu/cgi-bin/Explorer/oai2.0/testoai There isn't a 'discovery' method as such for OAI -- we have searched for GNU EPrints sites by using a Web search for terms that are common across installations. http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php Regards, Tim Brody

Re: Copyright: Form, Content, and Prepublication Incarnations

2003-11-18 Thread Tim Brody
to admit that this is the first I've ever heard of any papers being removed from Arxiv for copyright reasons. I will ask Tim Brody (creator of citebase) to see whether there is a more sensitive way to do a count, but using copyright and (remove or withdraw) I found 6 papers out of the total quarter

Re: Berlin Declaration on Open Access

2003-10-22 Thread Tim Brody
- Original Message - From: Stevan Harnad har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk The Berlin Declaration is just the beginning of a series of steps that the signatories will be taking to promote open access. Among these steps, the Max-Planck Society is Edoc, an open-access repository of all of the

Re: Nature's vs. Science's Embargo Policy

2003-01-15 Thread Tim Brody
for both. All the best, Tim Brody - Original Message - From: ept e...@biostrat.demon.co.uk To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 3:43 PM Subject: Re: Nature's vs. Science's Embargo Policy Alan Story wrote: Jan: Further

Re: Draft Policy for Self-Archiving University Research Output

2003-01-08 Thread Tim Brody
If the author's employment contract states that their employer (the University) reserves non-commercial distribution rights then that author can not sign away those rights to a publisher (without the agreement of the University). In my opinion I would rather the IPR were held by the institution -

Re: Online Self-Archiving: Distinguishing the Optimal from the Optional

2002-12-13 Thread Tim Brody
- Original Message - From: Arthur P. Smith apsm...@aps.org The main focus of your tragic loss article was the obsolescence of paper, and the resulting consequences. One consequence which was perhaps not widely anticipated is expanded access to research journal content - now

Re: UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) review

2002-11-26 Thread Tim Brody
Chris Zielinski asks: how many articles have been read but not cited? The folloowing estimates are from Citebase's database (http://citebase.eprints.org/) - (but duly noting caveats on data-quality, scope, coverage, noisiness, potential for abuse etc,

Re: Book on future of STM publishers

2002-07-19 Thread Tim Brody
community in general). It would seem, therefore, that research dissertations may be a potentially valuable resource after all - one that for too long has been accessible only from library archives. All the best, Tim Brody (PhD Research Student) - Original Message - From: Albert Henderson chess

Re: Chat: E-Archives Challenge: Results

2001-05-29 Thread Tim Brody
beautiful on the way out. All the best, Tim Brody

Re: Digitometrics

2001-05-26 Thread Tim Brody
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Tim Brody wrote (about my proposed 2nd criterion for evaluation of an eprint archive, which was: 2) its suitability for yielding citation data [an 'impact-ranking' criterion?]): [tb] One might also add the facility to export hit data, as an [tb] alternative criterion

Re: Validation of posted archives

2001-03-21 Thread Tim Brody
(... invisible hand of peer review). All the best, Tim Brody.

Re: Number of pre-prints relative to journal literature?

2000-12-07 Thread Tim Brody
, Tim Brody Ian Hickmen): http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/Tim/sld003.htm There are two questions: 1) What percentage of the _current_ output of literature is being arXived? 2) When looking for cited work, what percentage could I find in the arXiv? 1) For High Energy Physics (for which

Re: Central vs. Distributed Archives

2000-11-09 Thread Tim Brody
there is no provision for farming of texts. I may also point out that there are already archives that perform distributed mirroring - math arXiv is primarily made up of papers that have been archived elsewhere (judging by the lack of associated meta data and updates). Tim Brody Computer Science, University

Re: Publishing quote

2000-11-07 Thread Tim Brody
. Robert D. Bovenschulte, ACS Publications, Division Director But if those very few people are the only researchers of Left Earlobe Anatomy then it makes all the difference in the world. Are you improving research (and hence science) or improving your impact? Tim Brody Computer Science

Re: Why hep-th has 40% red-links

2000-09-12 Thread Tim Brody
-says) opinion...] But (feel free to correct me), hep-th is the primary digital source for theoretical physicists, and that is where theoretical physics research is being done. Tim Brody Computer Science, University of Southampton email: tdb...@soton.ac.uk Web: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~tdb198/