The IDOA ("Keystroke") Mandate and "The Button"

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 13:19:39 +0000

No, "The Button" does not "deliver a kind of OA" (Les), nor is it a
cop-out or betrayal of OA (David).

The only thing that stands between the planet earth and 100% OA to every
single one of the annual 2.5 million articles published in the planet's
24,000 peer-reviewed journals is *keystrokes*.

The ID/OA (Immediate Deposit, Optional Access) Mandate is meant to
generate those keystrokes, at long last. And Nature will take care of
the rest, promptly. You can quote me on that.

The ID/OA is a way to moot copyright-based hesitations and any embargo
or delay on the all-important act of depositing (keystrokes).

And the purpose of the EMAIL EPRINT button is to tide over user needs
during any embargo period, until Nature takes its course.

I think Les fully understands this, but was a bit thrown off by David's
rather ironic posting(s). I am pretty sure David does not yet understand.

Stevan

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Leslie Carr wrote:

> On 4 Dec 2006, at 19:55, David Goodman wrote:
>
> > 5. People who want OA will send you an email.
> It's always worth standing back from the solution to which you are
> dedicating so much effort and looking around to see if there are
> easier/cheaper/better ways of achieving the same thing. Repositories
> and OAI-PMH included. Now if PubMed (or Google/Scholar) were to
> implement Stevan's "please email a copy of this article" button, then
> yes, that could potentially deliver a kind of OA. The kind of OA that
> depends on people's continual goodwill, rather than once-for-all
> deposits.
>
> > 2a. For all journals except those published by Elsevier, use
> > Google Scholar.
> > (It no longer links to repository versions, but it does link to
> > publishers' versions.)
> Google Scholar certainly DOES link to repositories, and researcher
> web sites! However it always lists the repository version lower in
> the list of available copies than the journal option.
> --
> Les Carr
>
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