Re: Repositories: Institutional or Central ? emergent properties and the compulsory open society

From: Klaus Graf <klausgraf_at_GOOGLEMAIL.COM>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:37:18 +0100

2009/2/11 Stevan Harnad <amsciforum_at_gmail.com>:
>> Klaus Graf:
>>
>> It is wrong to think mandates are the only way to fill the
>> repositories... "Cream of Science" project in the NL had a very
>> high OA rate.
>
> Despite the enormous value and importance of Netherlands "Cream of Science"
> and the DARE project, its award-winning architect, Leo Waaijers has a rather
> different view ...

The short email conversation says nothing on CREAM OF SCIENCE. Don't
confuse DARE and Cream of Science which is a subset of DARE.

"Cream of Science showcases prominent research from the Netherlands.
The website lists the names of 217 top Dutch academics, providing
worldwide access to their 48,559 publications. About 60% of these can
be accessed full text. These full-text publications are a subset of
NARCIS and DAREnet."

60 % is a very high rate. It was a project which has shown that the
leading scholars of a small European countries support OA. That's the
fact. If DARE is unable to learn from the CoS experience then this
isn't an argument against CoS.

Klaus Graf
Received on Thu Feb 12 2009 - 01:35:54 GMT

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