Re: Mandating OA: Don't Let the Best Be the Enemy of the Good

2008-12-02 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 2-Dec-08, at 7:08 AM, leo waaijers wrote (on SPARC-OAForum): Dear Stevan, I will focus on your comments on my Recommendation 1 and leave the judgment on the Recommendations 2 and 3 and your criticism thereon to the readers. So this is about a comparison between a

Re: Mandating OA: Don't Let the Best Be the Enemy of the Good

2008-12-02 Thread Klaus Graf
2008/12/2 Stevan Harnad : > Digital documents that are made freely accessible on the web can be > accessed, read on-screen, downloaded, stored, printed-off, and data-crunched > by any individual user. (They can also be harvested by harvesters like > google.) That is all the use that researchers ne

Re: Mandating OA: Don't Let the Best Be the Enemy of the Good

2008-12-02 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Klaus Graf wrote: 2008/12/2 Stevan Harnad : As I have shown according German law it is not possible for all researchers  to data-crunch digital documents. Until you show how and why any German researcher cannot do exactly the same thing I

Re: Mandating OA: Don't Let the Best Be the Enemy of the Good

2008-12-03 Thread Klaus Graf
2008/12/3 Stevan Harnad : > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Klaus Graf wrote: >> >> 2008/12/2 Stevan Harnad : >> >> As I have shown according German law it is not possible for all >> researchers >> >> to data-crunch digital documents. > > Until you show how and why any German researcher cannot do

Re: Mandating OA: Don't Let the Best Be the Enemy of the Good

2008-12-02 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Klaus Graf wrote: Read carefully http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/4851871/ and don't ignore that, although I am not a lawyer, I am a copyright expert in German law. If the authors (and users) of the half million articles deposited in