On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Peter Suber wrote:
> Here's a January 19 posting from Open Access News:
>
> >Gerhard Beier and Ulla Tschida, Journal Publishers Approaches to
> >Self-Archiving and Open Access : ZIM Briefing Paper,
> ><http://edoc.mpg.de/48868>, a preprint (without full-text) on the Max
> >Planck Society eDoc Server, last revised October 14, 2003. Abstract:
> >"Analysis of 80 scholarly publishers' copyright agreements - Selected
> >examples from major publishers regarding self-archiving - Selected Reading
> >and selected websites - Appendix A: Analysis of Copyright Transfer
> >Agreements (CTA) and/or Licences of commercial Publishers and Learned
> >Societies-Extracts." (Thanks to Klaus Graf.)
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_01_18_fosblogarchive.html#a107453706106871194
>
> I thought you'd be interested in the following update:
>
> >Update. When I first blogged this, only a citation and abstract were
> >posted to the Max Planck eDoc Server. But now the full-text
> ><http://edoc.mpg.de/get.epl?fid=3507&did=48868&ver=1> is online. (Thanks
> >to Bernd-Christoph Kaemper.)
This note from Peter is very interesting. At the moment, however,
the views from
the Directory of Open Access Journals (DAOJ)
http://www.doaj.org/
the OAIster Directory of Institutional Archives
http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/ and the Romeo
and the Directory of Publisher Policies on Author/Institution self-archiving
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/Romeo%20Publisher%20Policies.htm
are all still too static! What we need is a sense of how they are growing
with time.
I strongly urge all three directories to adopt provide the kind
of continuously updated time-series that Tim Brody has provided
for EPrints:
http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php
supplementing and updating the older data from:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0032.gif
to
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0043.gif
Without time-based data we will not have a realistic idea of whether and
how fast OA is growing!
Stevan Harnad
Received on Thu Jan 29 2004 - 03:38:16 GMT
