Re: RCUK policy on open access

2005-07-01 Thread Tim Gray, Libray Assistant, Homerton College, Cambridge
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:53:21 +0100, Stevan Harnad har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote: [...] Consider the present logic of the RCUK proposal: (1) You are *required* to self-archive your RCUK-funded research -- except if your institution has no OA Institutional Repository (presumably because

Re: RCUK policy on open access

2005-07-01 Thread Leslie Carr
On 30 Jun 2005, at 22:43, Tim Gray, Libray Assistant, Homerton College, Cambridge wrote: Incidentally, what percentage of all UK peer-reviewed research is funded by RCUK? Would this percentage then be the percentage of *all* peer- reviwed UK research available via OA funded post 1st October

Re: RCUK policy on open access

2005-07-01 Thread Michael Fraser
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Tim Gray, Libray Assistant, Homerton College, Cambridge wrote: Incidentally, what percentage of all UK peer-reviewed research is funded by RCUK? Would this percentage then be the percentage of *all* peer-reviwed UK research available via OA funded post 1st October 2005

Re: RCUK policy on open access

2005-06-29 Thread Michael Fraser
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Stevan Harnad wrote: Michael Fraser -- who is in charge of creating Oxford University's Institutional Repository -- is *so* right! http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/collaboration/?rq=specialevents/20050610

Re: RCUK policy on open access

2005-06-29 Thread Steve Hitchcock
At 16:59 28/06/2005, Stevan Harnad wrote: Long-term preservation RCUK draws a distinction between two overlapping purposes: (a) making published material quickly and easily available, free of charge to users at the point of use, and (b) long-term preservation and curation. ... Please do

Re: RCUK policy on open access

2005-06-29 Thread Stevan Harnad
3 Excerpts from Peter Suber's Open Access News -- Forwarded message -- List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:48:11 -0400 From: Peter Suber To: SPARC Open Access Forum sparc-oafo...@arl.org Aisha Labi, British Research Group Calls for

Re: RCUK policy on open access

2005-06-28 Thread Stevan Harnad
These are some comments on the summary of the RCUK Proposed Policy. RCUK Announces Proposed Position on Access to Research Outputs http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/press/20050628openaccess.asp http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/index.asp The proposal is *excellent* overall, correcting all

Re: RCUK policy on open access

2005-06-28 Thread Michael Fraser
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Stevan Harnad wrote: There will be no obligation to set up a repository where none exists at present. I would strongly urge omitting this. Otherwise it will construed as a general opt-out clause for the RCUK requirement, and will implicitly encourage institutions to opt

Re: RCUK policy on open access

2005-06-28 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Michael Fraser wrote: RCUK PROPOSAL: There will be no obligation to set up a repository where none exists at present. I would suggest that rather than stating 'no obligation,' the RCs [instead] encourage grant proposals to include a proportion of the cost of running

RCUK policy on open access

2005-06-24 Thread Stevan Harnad
-- Forwarded message -- List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:40:06 -0400 From: Peter Suber pet...@earlham.edu To: SPARC Open Access Forum sparc-oafo...@arl.org See Stephen Pincock's story on the RCUK open-access policy in today's issue