At COAR, we have been doing some work to promote the implementation of OA
clauses in publishers' licenses.
These types of clauses are starting to be requested by institutions and
licensing agencies to secure the rights of authors to deposit into a
repository, often in order to comply with OA p
Putting aside the tit for tat nature of some of this discussion, one of
the big problems for making available works that have been deposited to
repositories is the complexity of the copyright compliance.
There are the rules imposed by publishers, and then the possibility that
the institution or fu
Here in France, librarians often are more or less unsatisfied with scientists
because of lacking awareness, motivation and enthusiasm for open access. In the
UK, some scientists seem unsatisfied with librarians because they do their job
too carefully. Why not swap them? (I am joking, yet...why n
Thanks for defending the profession, Jean-Claude and I think you've made some
important points.
However, there is nothing with service. Providing good service does not make
one a servant. 20% of the work of an academic is commonly formally described as
"service". One could also describe teachin
Beware of categories such as "librarians" or "publishers" or even
"researchers". Let us remember also that librarians were behind the
creation of repositories back around 2003-4. Without them, their work
and, often, their money and resources, we simply would not have these
repositories. That some l
Dana Roth wrote:
> Thanks to Stevan for reminding the list that working with librarians
> will, in the long run, be much more productive than denigrating their
> efforts.
I am all in favour or working with librarians when those librarians are
working to promote Open Access. When librarians work
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Subject: [GOAL] Re: Library Vetting of Repository Deposits
As a librarian knowing OA far far worse than you do I completely agree that we
can speed up the process. To me publishing is pushing a button as soon as
you're ready. All else comes afterwards. Ideally th
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen)
wrote:
> As a librarian knowing OA far far worse than you do I completely agree
> that we can speed up the process. To me publishing is pushing a button as
> soon as you're ready. All else comes afterwards. Ideally that includes peer
> revi
Thanks for clarifying this Stevan. I am thinking that OA advocates really don’t
want to alienate their main allies.
From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of
Stevan Harnad
Sent: 23 September 2014 15:44
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As a librarian knowing OA far far worse than you do I completely agree that we
can speed up the process. To me publishing is pushing a button as soon as
you're ready. All else comes afterwards. Ideally that includes peer review by
the way (the ArXiv/preprint model), but that's not the point here
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