All -
....and are in pdf which is an awful format for any re-purposing.
Also, well-organised institutional repositories are connected to a
CRIS (Current Research Information System) which (assuming it uses
CERIF - Common Research Information Format - an EU recommendation to
member states) provides contextual (meta)data on such things as
persons, organisational units (groups, departments), projects,
funding, facilities and equipment used, patents, products (including
research datasets and software), publications, events - i.e. the
research 'space' associated with the publication. More information
at www.eurocris.org/cerif
Of course all of this information is needed attached to the
publication for most re-purposing and also for research evaluation.
Keith
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From: American Scientist Open Access Forum
[mailto:AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG]
On Behalf Of Morag Greig
Sent: 02 June 2009 16:45
To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
Subject: Re: Changes in publisher policies on repository
deposit?
Because the copies on Elsevier's website are NOT freely
accessible.
Morag
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From: American Scientist Open Access Forum
[mailto:AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG]On
Behalf Of Sally Morris
Sent: 02 June 2009 15:36
To:
AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
Subject: Re: Changes in publisher policies on repository
deposit?
Let me be heretical here
In this interconnected environment, why does it
matter where the freely accessible version is?
Sally
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From: American Scientist Open Access Forum
[mailto:AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG]
On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad
Sent: 02 June 2009 14:32
To:
AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
Subject: Re: Changes in publisher policies on repository
deposit?
On 2-Jun-09, at 8:05 AM, Peter Suber wrote:
[Forwarding from Fred Friend via the JISC-Repositories
list. --Peter Suber.]
To all repository managers:
Rumours are spreading that Elsevier staff are approaching
UK Vice-Chancellors persuading them to point to PDF
copies of articles on Elsevier's web-site rather than
have the articles deposited in institutional
repositories. It appears that the argument being used is
that this will be a cheaper option than maintaining
full-text within repositories. If these reports are true,
my guess is that Elsevier are using these arguments to
undermine deposit mandates.
Here is my prediction:
(1) Yes, Elsevier and other publishers would
be happier if researchers did not deposit
their final drafts in their institutional
repositories, and if their institutions and
funders did not mandate that they do so.
Hence it is not at all surprising that they
may be trying to persuade UK VCs to link to
PDFs at Elsevier's website instead of having
their researchers deposit their own final
drafts in their own institutional
repositories.
(2) But UK VCs presumably still have some
autonomy and judgement of their own. So
whereas they will understand why it might be
in publishers' interest if universities'
research output were held at publishers'
websites rather than in the university's own
repository, they will also see quite clearly
why this would not be in the interest of
their universities, or their researchers, or
research assessment, or research itself.
(3) So the attempt at persuasion will prove
unpersuasive.
So please let us not again stir up groundless and
distracting anxieties about this. Let publishers try to
persuade whomever they wish of whatever they wish. The
interested parties will make their own decisions,
according to their own interests.
What UK VCs should be (and are) doing is persuading their
own researchers to provide Open Access to their own
research output, in their own repositories, by adopting
university Open Access self-archiving mandates, as 83
institutions and funders worldwide have already done. UK
has the world's highest concentration of these mandates,
and two more are about to be announced (stay tuned).
Elsevier (and the majority of other publishers), despite
their efforts at VC persuasion, and despite the familiar
doomsday scenarios to the contrary, remain on the side of
the angels insofar as OA self-archiving is concerned,
endorsing authors depositing their final drafts in their
institutional repositories.
Let us concentrate on accelerating OA mandate adoption
and not worry about how publishers might be trying to
decelerate it: The outcome is optimal (for research,
researchers, their institutions, and the tax-paying
public that funds them) -- and inevitable.
If Vice-Chancellors are persuaded to adopt
this policy, it would only give repository
access to an unsatisfactory version (PDFs
will not enable re-use for research purposes)
and access on Elsevier's terms. If this is
Elsevier's strategy it would seem to negate
their "green" status. Previous correspondence
on this list has indicated a harder line on
repository deposit by Wiley-Blackwell, and if
Elsevier are also hardening their policy,
mandates for repository deposit could lose
much of their potential effectiveness in
increasing access to research content.
There is no hardening of policies, the PDF issue is a red
herring, and green continues to be green.
It would be wise for repository managers to
brief their senior university management on
this issue. The threat to repository deposit
also adds to the need for authors to be
briefed on the use of a licence to publish
retaining certain rights rather than ceding
all control over their work to the publisher.
There is no threat to repository deposit; a green light
to deposit a postprint is sufficient for green OA and
green OA mandates, irrespective of whether the postprint
is the author's final draft or the publisher's PDF.
Any publishers reading this message should
understand that dialogue on the issues above
will be welcome, in particular clarification
of any change in publisher policies.
What is needed is not (still more!) dialogue with
publishers but self-archiving of postprints by the
researchers -- and postprint self-archiving mandates by
researchers' institutions and funders.
Repository managers do far more for OA if they focus on
helping their institution to adopt self-archiving
policies rather than if they focus on how publisher may
be trying to maximise their interests by delaying or
distracting from them.
Stevan Harnad
Fred Friend (not writing on behalf of any
organisation or institution)
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Received on Tue Jun 02 2009 - 22:29:00 BST