Re: The numbers - Re: [BOAI] Success of U Liege Mandate Linked to Performance Assessment

From: Klaus Graf <klausgraf_at_GOOGLEMAIL.COM>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 18:52:51 +0200

I have counted for the well known Journal Nature ("This is a RoMEO
yellow publisher") the ORBI deposits since publication date 2002:

R = Request copy (no full text = NO OPEN ACCESS forever or author's
dead + 70 years whichever comes first)

F = Full text

PP/R-AP/F = 2 files, one publisher postprint with Request button, one
author postprint full-text

2010 R

2009 F

2008 2 R, 1 PP/R-AP/F

2007 2 R

2005 6 R

2004 2 R, 1 F

2003 1 R, 1 F, 1 PP/R-AP/F

2002 3 R

Summa summarum: 22 "Nature" articles, only 5 full-text. This is in no
way a success for OA. The Liege "mandate" is worthless.

Because authors tend to deposit publisher's PDFs with request button
(which is, as I have shown several times, evil) instead of the
preprint or (in the Nature case after an embargo of 6 months)
postprint the request button is against OA.

Klaus Graf
Received on Wed Jun 02 2010 - 17:59:20 BST