On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Alvin Hutchinson (Smithsonian Institution
Libraries) wrote (on the DSpace list):
> I wonder how many people are using the 'Request Copy' button
> to restrict access to repository content on a case-by-case
> basis. If you are not familiar with this, you can learn more at:
> http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php//RequestCopy
>
> To see what it looks like in practice, go to:
> http://hdl.handle.net/10088/2624
>
> My question is whether some repository harvesting sites such
> as OpenDOAR, Google Scholar and/or the OAI-PMH harvesters would
> object to having content 'restricted' in this sense. Most of the
> harvester/aggregator sites ask that all content be freely available
> before they will include a Dspace installation in their index.
>
> Technically such items are freely available to any user (with the
> consent of the author) and there is no requirement to register and/or
> pay for the material.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Would it be inappropriate to
> open my repository up to these services if some (most, all, few?) contents
> are limited in this way? Your opinions are greatly appreciated.
(1) Neither the DSpace "Request Copy" Button nor the EPrints "Request a
Copy"
Button (on which it was based) "restrict access to repository content".
http://www.eprints.org/news/features/request_button.php
(2) What makes it possible to deposit a document and metadata, and then
restrict access to the metadata alone is both the DSpace and the EPrints
software, which offer both an Open Access and a Closed Access deposit
option.
(3) There are many reasons depositors might wish to use the Closed
Access deposit option. The main reason is that some publishers impose
an access-embargo of 6-12 months or more. Another is that in some
cases the author might want direct control over -- or a record of --
who accesses his paper.
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/274-guid.html
(4) Both OpenDOAR and ROAR
http://roar.eprints.org/ as well as
OAIster
http://www.oaister.org/ harvest the metadata of all suitable
OAI-compliant repositories, regardless of whether the full-text item
itself is Open Access or Closed Access. (Google Scholar only harvests
accessible full-texts, though it displays cited items undeposited items
too, and links to Google as another way to find a link to the item.)
(5) It is for this reason that the combination of Closed Access
full-text, open-access metadata and the Button is called "almost-open
access" and not open access.
(6) Once the IDOA (Immediate-Deposit/Optional-Access) mandates, with the
help of the Closed Access plus Button option, spread to all universities
and funders worldwide, access embargoes will soon die a natural and
well-deserved death under the mounting demand for open access.
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html
So the upshot is this: For years now, researchers have failed to
deposit their full-texts in sufficient numbers on their own initiative
to provide 100% OA, partly because of concerns about copyrights and
embargoes. IDOA mandates will now remedy that. 100% of articles will
now be deposited. At least 62% of them will be immediately OA. The
remainder will initially be almost OA.
http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php
And once those keystrokes -- which were the only things standing between
the research community and 100% OA all along -- are at last behind us,
100% OA will follow in short order. (You can quote me on that.) A little
more patience for now, after all this fruitless waiting for spontaneous
deposit: Concentrate on adopting a local institutional IDOA mandate
and getting everything deposited, rather than worrying about whether
the deposits will/would be picked up immediately by google. All will
be well...
Meanwhile, once your university has a deposit mandate, please register
it in ROARMAP:
http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php
Stevan Harnad
AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM:
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.h
tml
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/
UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS:
If you have adopted or plan to adopt a policy of providing Open Access
to your own research article output, please describe your policy at:
http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html
OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY:
BOAI-1 ("Green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal
http://romeo.eprints.org/
OR
BOAI-2 ("Gold"): Publish your article in an open-access journal if/when
a suitable one exists.
http://www.doaj.org/
AND
in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article
in your own institutional repository.
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
http://archives.eprints.org/
http://openaccess.eprints.org/
Received on Sun Jan 20 2008 - 19:55:34 GMT