Re: OA's Problem Is Not Funding But Keystrokes: Solution Is Mandates

From: Klaus Graf <klausgraf_at_GOOGLEMAIL.COM>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:56:55 +0100

2008/2/18, Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>:

> The ID/OA mandate is to *deposit* -- not to make OA. There are no legal
> strictures, for example, on Closed Access deposit.

That's right. But such a mandate is in the same way helpful like
convincing publishers that OA (= Open Access, not: Optional Access) is
great.

Closed Access deposit helps nothing.

*If publishers don't want OA the articles remain CA permanently.

* Why should scholarly authors act in a fair way using the mail
button? If they don't know the person who requests the article there
is high probability that they won't mail the article. There is no
empirical proof that this would be a better model than the "ask the
author" solution which is common practice without any mandate.

Klaus Graf
Received on Mon Feb 18 2008 - 17:45:27 GMT