Re: [GOAL] 100 Stories of Open Access Impact

2016-10-29 Thread Richard Poynder
Thank you for responding Promita. Forgive me for concluding that bepress produced this document to promote itself and its Digital Commons product, and thus ultimately to sell more product, rather than to help the OA community. But let me explain why I feel it would have helped to cast the net

Re: [GOAL] 100 Stories of Open Access Impact

2016-10-28 Thread Promita Chatterji
Hi Richard - Thanks for your message. We did this work because people were really hungry for stories around open access impact, and we knew we had a significant volume of relevant data. We work in partnership with hundreds of institutions on their open access initiatives and see first-hand the i

Re: [GOAL] 100 Stories of Open Access Impact

2016-10-28 Thread Johnson, Kathy
' ; richard.poyn...@btinternet.com Subject: Re: [GOAL] 100 Stories of Open Access Impact Why would UNESCO work with a vendor of repository software to evaluate repository software or to develop open access promotional materials? If this is what is happening, it is problematic. It may be appr

Re: [GOAL] 100 Stories of Open Access Impact

2016-10-28 Thread Heather Morrison
: 2016-10-28 1:46 PM (GMT-05:00) To: "'Neupane, Bhanu'" , richard.poyn...@btinternet.com Cc: "'Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)'" Subject: Re: [GOAL] 100 Stories of Open Access Impact Thank you for this Bhanu. I am aware of the repository docum

Re: [GOAL] 100 Stories of Open Access Impact

2016-10-28 Thread Richard Poynder
misunderstood. Best wishes, Richard From: Neupane, Bhanu [mailto:b.neup...@unesco.org] Sent: 28 October 2016 17:26 To: richard.poyn...@btinternet.com Cc: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: Re: [GOAL] 100 Stories of Open Access Impact Richard! Unesco

Re: [GOAL] 100 Stories of Open Access Impact

2016-10-28 Thread Neupane, Bhanu
Richard! Unesco isn't promoting bepress but unesco is working with bepress - the difference! Unesco has previously worked with bepress to evaluate repository softwares. Thanks. Sent from my iPad On Oct 28, 2016, at 17:39, Richard Poynder mailto:richard.poyn...@gmail.com>> wrote: Thanks fo

Re: [GOAL] 100 Stories of Open Access Impact

2016-10-28 Thread Richard Poynder
Thanks for posting this Promita Chatterji. Would it be accurate to say that this is, in effect, a document promoting bepress' commercial repository platform Digital Commons that UNESCO will publish and distribute? Best wishes, Richard On 28 October 2016 at 15:21, Promita Chatterji wrote:

[GOAL] 100 Stories of Open Access Impact

2016-10-28 Thread Promita Chatterji
Happy Open Access Week! To end the week, we are excited to share 100 stories and a framework for describing the impact of open access . We look forward to hearing your stories of open access success. Best, Promita Chatterji -- Promita Chatt