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On 13 November 2013 11:54, Denkinson, Grant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Stevan Harnad writes;

Can we harvest papers from ArXiv?

http://arxiv.org/help/bulk_data
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So if a paper from our university is on ArXiv can we put it in our institutional repository on behalf of the author?

The main point of the arXiv licence is that it doesn't by extension grant anyone a licence to hold the material anywhere else. But it - explicitly - does not maintain an exclusive licence on the content. So, it can be located additionally in other places - you just need to have your own legal basis for hosting the material.

So if, for example, an author granted you the licence to host it in your institutional repository, then there is no reason why you shouldn't place it there on their behalf.


More to the point though, many deposits into institutional repositories are made under very similar licences - and for papers published with a CTA, that may be the limit of how they can legally be deposited - then this would prevent BiorXiv (or other systems) harvesting anything more than the metadata [from the institutional repositories].

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