On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Piegza, Amanda M. wrote:
> BK: "I don't understand the resistance by a few of Talat's university
> authors to 'mandates'."
>
> - I don't understand it either, and your points are very good. However,
> on my campus (90% of faculty are in engineering, science, or technology
> fields) we are getting the same resistance. I think they fear that if
> there are any mandates, the editors/publishers may reject their papers.
> No matter if it's an unfounded or legit fear, it's still a fear and they
> won't 'allow' something like that (at least currently)..... so what is a
> librarian to do?
Good question:
(1) Tell them about the Immediate-Deposit/Optional-Access Mandate.
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html
(2) Tell them about the "Email Eprint Request" Button.
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/274-guid.html
(3) And tell them about the Romeo directory of journal policies on setting
Open Access to deposits:
http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php
Stevan Harnad
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