On Jul 9 2008, Jessica Grimm wrote:
> I don't
> mind to PDF the ones I have myself and for instance put them onto
> BoneCommons.
Hello Jessica & zooarchers
The zooarchaeological community would certainly benefit hugely from opening
access to our data and publications. At the very least, we should be
depositing all our publications (journal articles, posters, chapters, etc)
in open access repositories. Indeed, if you are funded by NERC, AHRC, ESRC,
the Australian Research Council, the ERC, and many others, you are actually
required to make all publications resulting from your grant freely
available in a repository.
Bone Commons is a good place to deposit papers; most universities have well
organised and indexed institutional repositories which will be very happy
to host publications, and will guide you through the copyright restrictions
- some even do the keystrokes for you.
However, PLEASE do not digitise and make available for download anything to
which you do not hold the copyright - especially unpublished theses. This
is a serious copyright issue, and should only be undertaken as a project by
the university holding the theses. Perhaps if we alert Munich to our need
for this material, they will prioritise it in their digitisation project
[http://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/]
More information about copyright issues in digitising theses is available
at the British Library's Ethos project:
http://ethostoolkit.cranfield.ac.uk/tiki-index.php
More information about Open Access is available all over the internets, but
this is a good place to start: http://tinyurl.com/3yrhky
Stepping off the soapbox now-
Stephanie Meece
Department of Archaeology
University of Cambridge
CB2 3DZ
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