At 06:15 PM 11/3/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>This posting is re-directed from the thread:
>
> "Re: Open Access and ISI-indexed journals and articles"
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4106.html
>
>Pertinent Prior Amsci Topic Threads:
>
> "Evolving Publisher Copyright Policies On Self-Archiving" (2002)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2350.html
>
> "Legal ways around copyright for one's own giveaway texts" (2000)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0541.html
>
>On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Stevan Harnad wrote:
>
> > (4a) If the journal is gray (8%), self-archive preprint + corrigenda
> > and inform the journal.
> >
> > (4b) If the journal responds to (4a) with an objection, negotiate
> or remove.
> >
> > (Peter [Suber], if my memory does not fail me, you too have recommended
> > something along the lines of 4a/4b: Is there a URL?)
>
>Peter Suber has since replied that he recalls blogging something to that
>effect in Open Access News (but cannot retrieve the URL) and Alma Swan
>has written that she remembers a similar proposal in a Dutch institutional
>self-archiving initiative (but she likewise cannot retrieve the URL)
>(SURF/DARE?).
I've since found the blog posting that Stevan mentions. It's apparently
the same news that Alma Swan recalls. Here's the posting from Open Access
News, April 6, 2004.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_04_04_fosblogarchive.html#a108126147329143935
>Tilburg University has added a very nice feature
><http://kubl03.uvt.nl:4090/?request=coma&domain=Coma> to its institutional
>repository. When a journal does not permit postprint archiving, then the
>repository still includes a record containing a citation and a link to the
>publisher's priced or for-fee edition. The record also contains an
>explanation of the publisher's policy, quoting and dating the publisher's
>own words if possible. With one click, the author can generate a letter to
>the publisher asking permission to deposit the postprint in the
>repository. Backend software automatically addresses the letter to the
>right human contact at the publisher and provides a full citation to the
>article. The letter concludes, "If I do not hear from you within thirty
>days I will assume that you have no objections to the above-mentioned
>request and the electronic copy will then be included in the institutional
>repository of the University of Tilburg." See this example
><http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_04_04_fosblogarchive.html#a108126147329143935>.
>Leo Waaijers of Tilburg reminds us that the site is still under construction.
Peter
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Peter Suber
Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge
Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College
Author, SPARC Open Access Newsletter
Editor, Open Access News blog
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/
peter.suber_at_earlham.edu
Received on Wed Nov 03 2004 - 19:32:46 GMT