There is an article of a scholar (German studies) against OA in the
leading German newspaper arguing that mandates (he cites ZORA) and the
Konstanz request to deliver a full text when sending the data for the
university bibliography ar against academic freedom. Read it in
Google's English:
http://tinyurl.com/bv58fe
See also:
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5509895/
It is wrong to think mandates are the only way to fill the
repositories. It is ignored in this list by Harnad and the other
Mandate-Advocates that "Cream of Science" project in the NL had a very
high OA rate. Thus I applaud the DFG which is planning a similar
program.
Klaus Graf
Received on Wed Feb 11 2009 - 19:07:40 GMT