I just want to commend the SHERPA team for their responsiveness. It is
definitely not a coincidence that the UK is leading the world -- by a
wide margin -- in Open Access. There is a spirit and commitment here to
do it, and to do it right. History will not overlook this.
Best wishes (from a Curmudgeon lacking Les's native patience and tact),
SH
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:45:30 +0100
From: Millington Peter <Peter.Millington -- NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK>
To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM -- LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
Subject: Re: Get the Institutional Repository Managers Out of the Decision
Loop
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
Peter Millington
SHERPA Technical Development Officer
Greenfield Medical Library, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical
Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, England
Phone: +44 (0)115 84 68481
________________________________
From: Leslie Carr [mailto:lac -- 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
<
http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=364> :
"Stevan Harnad... has been consistent in arguing
the logic [of what comes with the OA territory
<
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/259-guid.html> ]...
and I agree with the logic... [but]... several repository managers at
the JISC meeting
<
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2007/06/repositories_conference.aspx>
[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 - 12:53:35 BST