On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Leslie Carr <lac_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
wrote:
On 2 Jan 2009, at 20:18, Klaus Graf wrote:
I have given a legal analysis of ORBi in
German at:
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5420548/
The practice and legal framework is nonsense.
And yet the practice embodies sufficient sense to be effective.
I have
no doubt that a more refined policy understanding will evolve
as Liege
(and similar institutions) acquire more experience from their
continuing practice.
Liege policy has indeed become more refined since its original draft
(11 Mar 2007). The rector has forwarded a November policy update, and
I hope he will shortly be posting a summary to the AmSci Forum.
Meanwhile, here is some background reading to help readers make sense
of evolving OA policy:
Open Access: The Devil's in the Details
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/499-guid.html
Which Green OA Mandate Is Optimal?
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/494-guid.html
Weak and Strong OA Mandates: Don't Let the Best Be the Enemy of the
Good
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/493-guid.html
What Institutions Can Do To Facilitate the Transition to Open Access
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/492-guid.html
Brilliant Legal Rebuttal of Congressional Challenge to NIH Green Open
Access Mandate
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/468-guid.html
Immunizing Deposit Mandates From Publisher Embargoes On Open Access
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/463-guid.html
Plan B for NIH Public Access Mandate: A Deposit Mandate
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/461-guid.html
Too Much Ado About PDF
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/460-guid.html
Estimating Annual Growth in OA Repository Content
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/445-guid.html
Open Access: "Gratis" and "Libre"
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/442-guid.html
OA Primer for the Perplexed: I
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/408-guid.html
Pseudo-Legal Distinctions Rendered Moot by the Online Medium
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/406-guid.html
Open Access: "Strong" and "Weak"
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/399-guid.html
On the Perils of Over-Reaching and Over-Defining
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/389-guid.html
Don't Risk Getting Less By Needlessly Demanding More
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/486-guid.html
Open Access Now: On the Virtues of Not Over-Reaching, Needlessly
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/374-guid.html
Upgrade Harvard's Opt-Out Copyright Retention Mandate: Add a
No-Opt-Out Deposit Clause
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/364-guid.html
The University's Mandate To Mandate Open Access
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/358-guid.html
Administrative Keystroke Mandates To Record Research Output Can Serve
As Open Access Mandates Too
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/336-guid.html
Creative Mix-and-Match Re-Use Is Not What Open Access Is About
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/332-guid.html
No Need To Keep Waiting For Gold OA
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/427-guid.html
How Green Open Access Supports Text- and Data-Mining
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/310-guid.html
Green OA Moots Permission Barriers By Bypassing Price Barriers
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/309-guid.html
Re-Use Rights Already Come With the (Green) OA Territory: Judicet
Lector
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/308-guid.html
Copyright and Research: A Devastating Critique
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/303-guid.html
More Reasons for the Immediate Deposit Mandate and the Eprint Request
Button
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/292-guid.html
Model University Self-Archiving Policy
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/276-guid.html
How the Immediate-Deposit/Optional-Access Mandate + the "Fair Use"
Button Work
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/274-guid.html
"Permission Barriers" are a red herring for OA: Keystrokes are our
only real barrier
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/273-guid.html
On Needlessly Complicating the Immediately Attainable
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/272-guid.html
Copyright retention is not a prerequisite for self-archiving
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/265-guid.html
On Patience, and Letting (Human) Nature Take Its Course
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/262-guid.html
Open Access: What Comes With the Territory
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/259-guid.html
OA Mandates, Embargoes, and the "Fair Use" Button
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/249-guid.html
Well-Meaning Supporters of "OA + X" Inadvertently Opposing OA
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/182-guid.html
Optimizing OA Self-Archiving Mandates: What? Where? When? Why? How?
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html
Cornell's Copyright Advice: Guide for the Perplexed Self-Archiver
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/132-guid.html
Self-Archive Now: No Need to Negotiate Rights
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/125-guid.html
Open Access First; Then, Only If/When Necessary: Open Access
Publication
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/100-guid.html
Plugging the Loopholes in the Proposed FRPAA, RCUK and EU
Self-Archiving Mandates
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/91-guid.html
Optimizing the European Commission's Recommendation for Open Access
Archiving of Publicly-Funded Research
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/78-guid.html
Optimizing MIT's Open Access Policy
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/74-guid.html
The Immediate-Deposit/Optional Access (ID/OA) Mandate: Rationale and
Model
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html
A Simple Way to Optimize the NIH Public Access Policy
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/64-guid.html
A Key-Stroke Koan For Our Open-Access Times
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/14-guid.html
Stevan Harnad
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