Re: Get the Institutional Repository Managers Out of the Decision Loop

From: Millington Peter <Peter.Millington_at_NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:45:30 +0100

We have been discussing Les Carr's message further within the SHERPA Core
Team and concluded that he has a valid point. Consequently, we will be
changing our recommendations in the OpenDOAR Policy Tool for the
harvesting of full items by robots. These policy options will remain, BUT
they will no longer be either minimal or optimal OpenDOAR-recommended
options.
 
We expect to releaser the amended the Policy Tool by the end of the week.
 
Regards
 
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Peter Millington

SHERPA Technical Development Officer
Greenfield Medical Library, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />University of Nottingham,
Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, England
Phone: +44 (0)115 84 68481

________________________________________________________________________________
From: Leslie Carr [mailto:lac_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk]
Sent: 12 June 2007 16:26
To: American Scientist Open Access Forum
Cc: Millington Peter
Subject: Re: Get the Institutional Repository Managers Out of the
Decision Loop

      Peter Murray-Rust [PM-R] replied:

            "Stevan Harnad... has been consistent in
            arguing the logic [of what comes with the
            OA territory]... and I agree with the
            logic... [but]... several repository
            managers at the JISC meeting [said] I could
            not have permission to do [such things]
            with their current content. I asked 'can my
            robots download and mine the content in
            your current open access repository of
            theses?' - No. 'Can you let me have some
            chemistry theses from your open access
            collection so I can data-mine them?' - No -
            you will have to ask the permission of each
            author individually.


The OpenDOAR repository policies tool tends to act towards
over-cautiousness in the policies that they suggest for data and
document reuse.
The current policies that they produce have options to explicitly
allow services  that do full text indexing and citation analysis,
BUT THAT IS ALL.
By enumerating the potential allowable services they are
effectively stifling innovation and research, and that is a BAD
thing. The last thing that OA advocates ought to do is build up
ANOTHER rights-withholding infrastructure.

I do hope that this a a short-sighted transition phenomenon, but it
should certainly be addressed now (and strongly).
--
Les Carr
Received on Thu Jun 14 2007 - 12:16:45 BST

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