Oh, but there's a world of difference. Otherwise, why are we not just leaving it to academics to put stuff on their websites where Google can index it, rather than spending all this energy on repositories?
Jen
Jenny Delasalle
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University of Warwick Library
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Rankin
> Sent: 16 February 2009 15:54
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> Subject: Re: John Wiley on RoMEO
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> But it is also possible to build academics staff page
> automatically using contents from IR - what's the difference
>
> Ricky
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sheppard, Nick
> Sent: 16 February 2009 15:48
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> Subject: Re: John Wiley on RoMEO
>
> I may be splitting hairs but would there be any difference if
> an academic were to self-archive a copy of their Wiley paper
> on their own web page and then I were to add a full metadata
> record in an IR and link to it? Have I spotted a clever
> loop-hole or will Wiley's legal eagles have thought of this?
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Talat Chaudhri
> Sent: 13 February 2009 14:09
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> Subject: Re: John Wiley on RoMEO
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> When this last happened to me, it was explained that RoMEO
> calls publishers "green" if they allow the author to archive
> a copy on the web, but there is no requirement for that to be
> in an IR or to allow a repository manager to do it on their
> behalf. In my presonal opinion, this is a potential failing
> of RoMEO's "green" definition, since for all
>
> practical purposes repository managers want to know if a
> publisher is "green" meaning "green for the purposes of
> institutional repositories".
> These are, after all, the people who mainly use RoMEO,
> although clearly it's useful to direct one's authors to it as
> well. The current definition is pretty much a fringe issue,
> in practice. I don't mean to criticise the fantastic service
> that RoMEO provide, but the difference is clearly an
> important one that needs to be clarified in all cases.
>
>
> Talat Chaudhri
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> Sheppard, Nick wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Already confused trying to steer a path through the labyrinthine
> > copyright policies of assorted publishers I was even more so when I
> > put John Wiley & Sons into RoMEO to discover that it is
> apparently a
> > green publisher that does not allow deposit in an institutional
> > repository (apart from JASIST authors). Isn't this a rather unusual
> > condition for a 'green' publisher?
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