2009/7/30 Stevan Harnad <amsciforum_at_gmail.com>:
> Hyperlinked version of this critique: http://bit.ly/70QyL
>
> SUMMARY: Although copyright reservation by authors and copyright
> reform are all always welcome, they are unnecessary for universal
> Green OA; and needlessly suggesting that copyright reservation/reform
> is or ought to be made a prerequisite simply slows down progress
> toward reaching the universal Green OA that is already fully within
> the global research community's grasp.
(1) Any strategy which isn't Harnad's own is slowing down the OA
progress in the definition which Harnad gives it.
(2) Full OA is OA according the BBB definitions which are calling for libre OA.
(3) If libre OA is an important aim then Copyright reservation is essential.
(4) If OA isn't only a concern for scientists but also for the
humanities there is no doubt that OA to journal articles is clearly
insufficient - in the humanities OA to books and book contributions is
essential.
(5) SHERPA/ROMEO is Science-centered and angloamerican-centered.
(6) There is NO evidence that SHERPA/ROMEO has any significance for
Germany's most important humanities publishers.
(7) For de Gruyter see
http://www.degruyter.de/journals/journalsPublicrepEn.cfm
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0907/msg00139.html
Klaus Graf
Received on Thu Jul 30 2009 - 21:43:00 BST