Dear Klaus Graf,
I think this debate is useless. I read your lengthy comment and
ultimately your point is that the Liège Mandate does not go beyond
the well known fair use clause. I think you are right; the Liège
Mandate is converting 'fair use' into 'smart use'. It is a
non-confronting endeavour to bypass the proprietary review process of
the big publishing houses. Why calling it nonsense? It is just one
way to better access to knowledge and Stevan Harnad and Bernard
Rentier are strong believers in it. So, please Klaus Graf, what's
your point?
Leo Waaijers.
Stevan Harnad wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 10:08:30 -0500
From: Bernard Rentier <brentier_at_ULG.AC.BE>
To:
AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
Subject: The Liege IR Mandate is definitely IDOA/DDR
(Immediate-Deposit/Optional-Access -- Dual
Deposit/Release)
Yesterday, Klaus Graf reacted rather strongly to the
announcement of the
Liège University repository mandate, stating t[in the
American Scientist
Open Access Forum] that its "practice and legal framework
is nonsense."
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5420548/
http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/sc/wa.exe?A2=ind09&L=american-scientist-open-a
ccess-forum&D=1&O=D&F=l&S=&P=339
It seems to me that perhaps he may have missed a few
essential aspects
of this mandate, essentially the way it is handled in
practice, the
legal wherewithal and the reasons for imposing it.
Below is the English translation of the message I have
sent to the whole
University Community on November 26, 2008. I believe
that, rather than
a lengthy explanation of how the Liège mandate works,
this message tells
it all much better.
It may perhaps be useful as well for those who wish to
find a way to
obtain compliance with their universities. It
demonstrates also
that the Liège Mandate is indeed IDOA/DDR
(Immediate-Deposit/Optional-
Access -- Dual Deposit/Release), to use the latest
definitions coined in
this forum.
Happy New Year to all !
Bernard Rentier
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Madame, Monsieur, Cher(e) Collègue,
The increase in international visibility of the ULg
[Université
de Liège] and its researchers, mainly through their
publications,
as well as the support for the worldwide
development of an open
and free access to scientific works (Open Access) are
two essential
objectives at the heart of my action, as you probably
know.
At my request, the Institutional Repository "ORBi"
(Open Repository &
Bibliography;
http://orbi.ulg.ac.be ) has been set up
at the ULg by
the Libraries Network to meet these objectives.
[1] The experimental encoding phase based on
volunteerism being now
successfully completed, we can step forward and enter
the "production
phase" this Wednesday November 26th, 2008. I take
this opportunity
to thank all the professors and researchers who have
already filed
in ORBi hundreds of their references, 70% of them
with the full
text. Thanks to their patience, ORBi's fine tuning
could be achieved.
From today onward, it is incumbent upon each ULg
member to feed ORBi
with his/her own references. In this respect, the
Administrative
Board of the University has decided to make it
mandatory for all
ULg members:
- to deposit the bibliographic references of ALL
their
publications since 2002;
- to deposit the full text of ALL their articles
published in
periodicals since 2002.
Access to these full texts will only be granted
with the author's
consent and according to the rules applicable to
author's rights
and copyrights. The University is indeed very
keen on respecting
the rights of all stakeholders.
[2] For future publications, deposit in ORBi will be
mandatory as
soon as the article is accepted by the editor.
[3] I wish to remind you that, as announced a year in
March 2007,
starting October 1st, 2009 *only those references
introduced in ORBi
will be taken into consideration as the official list
of publications
accompanying any curriculum vitæ in all evaluation
procedures 'in
house' (designations, promotions, grant applications,
etc.).*
Information seminars have been planned during the
next months
to allow every one of you to make the tool your own
thing (see
http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/news?id=06). Help is also
accessible on line;
such as the simplified user's guide (also available
as a leaflet)
and the Depositor's Guide.
The development of ORBi offers multiple advantages
not only to the
Institution, but also to the researchers and their
teams, such as:
- a considerable speeding up of the dissemination
and visibility
of the scientific works (as soon as publication
approval is
granted;
- a considerable increase in visibility for the
published works
through referencing in the main search engines
(Googlescholar,
OAI metaengines, etc.);
- centralised and perennial conservation of
publications allowing
multiple exploitation possibilities (integration
in personal
web pages, in institutional web pages, export of
reference lists
towards other applications and to funding
organisations such as
the Belgian National Fund for Scientific
Research); - etc.
I hope that, despite the time you are going to devote
to this
somewhat tedious task, you will soon realise the
benefits of this
institutional policy.
With many thanks,
Bernard Rentier
Rector
University of Liege
7, place du 20 Aout
4000 Liege, Belgium
Tel: +32-4-366 9700
Received on Sat Jan 03 2009 - 17:50:42 GMT