Dear Stephanie,
This is very well put, and an useful link to the Open Access overview.
If ZOOARCHers do have pdfs of publications online, either in a personal
web site or in a university repository, I would encourage you to also
make them available in the Publications section of BoneCommons. If you
do not want to upload the full pdf, you can simply post the title of the
paper and link to it wherever it lives on the Web.
Here is an example, where the author uploaded the paper to BoneCommons
and also included the full citation information for the paper:
http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/icazForum/viewtopic.php?t=934
And here is an example of a post that simply links to the paper
elsewhere on the Web:
http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/icazForum/viewtopic.php?t=563
The "BY" license at the top of this post is a flexible copyright icon
that permits use/reuse of the content but still requires attribution of
the original author.
By putting these posts in BoneCommons, exposure to Google and other
search engines is increased. This facilitates discovery and sharing by
members of our community, thus broadening the scope and impact of our
research.
As Editor of BoneCommons, I would be happy to help people post their
papers.
Best wishes,
Sarah Kansa
Stephanie Meece wrote:
> 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 unpublished theses.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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