Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:22:39 +0000
From: kaostar <
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[log in to unmask]it's complicated- i was involved in some of the concept and development
of my institution's 'repository' which is the published output of all
academics across all disciplines, free for anyone to access where
publishers allow us to release the material, and it is both costly and a
nightmare- as a rule of thumb the author has copyright, but only of the
words, the *layout* is copyright of the publisher, so you cannot simply
repost a pdf version of a journal article- and some publishers will not
allow reposting at all, either for a year after journal publication, or
ever, and when this *is* possible often we have to use the 'author's
final' version, ie a pdf we make from the last pre-print version the
author sent to the publisher, therefore the page nubmering is shot to
hell compared to the actual journal layout, and any final edits will not
be included, so we have to include that caveat too
and it is expensive- bespoke front end software to run the show, web
hosting space, programmer time to keep it running, someone to work on
indexing to keep it high on the google rankings, copyright law people to
check and write the process and keep it up to date with both UK, US and
World law on the subject, ongoing policy and copyright permissions
communications with every single journal we publish with (many hundreds)
and a continual process of keeping the repository up to date, as
academics are publishing all the time. Factor in the events needed when
someone moves form anothe runi to here (or leaves) and it is fulltime
work- i think out library service now have 3 people employed on the
scheme, and it was more people initially when the repos was being
populated with backdated outputs
every academic hosting their own website with their own work is simply
not feasible- imagine how difficult it would be to search through
something like that, let alone agreement on a format (it took a year to
agree that PDFa is the best format for us, but it might not suit
everyone) ..... the limited facilities for file hosting on
academia.edu
aren't bad, but nowhere near enough
dave e
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From: janet ifimust <
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Sent: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:09:59 +0000
Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] EThOS Service
> Actually, the cost could be very great, indeed - if it were seen to be
infringing copyright. At least one of the journals in which I publish
will not allow us to host our own pre-print papers, while other journals
do. The journal holds the copyright, as I understand it....
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