Excellent, timely practical advice from Professor Kornbrot. (Yet another round of unconstructive nay-saying from her interlocutrix: http://bit.ly/rOAch-motel )
Stevan Harnad
On 2011-10-02, at 12:27 PM, Dorothea Salo wrote:
> Lovely, O Mouse. Will you be belling the cat, then?
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> (Reference: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/cat.html )
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> Dorothea
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> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Kornbrot, Diana
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>> 1. All databases should be MANDATED to include a field for the open access
>> repositpry of the 1st author, E.g. World of Knpw;edge, sciverese, google
>> scholar, scopus, ebsco. Currently many searches don't even save the doi in
>> a link form. Thus if you search sciverse and download citation, the URL is
>> via scivers NOT via the permanent DOI
>> 2. Journal referencing guidelines should ALWAYS include a URL for 1st author
>> OA repository, in addition to doi. Agin note that some, including APA do NOT
>> specify doi as a link, but then the APA, sigh…
>> After all authors want to be READ with EASE, so the easier it is to get to
>> their repository the better. Publishers of both databases and journals
>> [often the same] have a vested interest in making access via the repository
>> DIFFICULT.
>> Practice what I preach, so my CV has doi ref and OA ref for everything.
>> Best
>> Diana
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>> On 01/10/2011 14:15, "Stevan Harnad" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
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>> This information comes courtesy of the IFLA copyright programme.=20
>> Are Princeton's essentially the same terms/conditions as the=20
>> Harvard Mandate?
>>
>> It looks like this is indeed just another non-mandatory=20
>> "mandate." The language about each faculty member automatically=20
>> granting Princeton a non-exclusive license to "exercise any and=20
>> all copyrights in his or her scholarly articles published in any=20
>> medium," etc., is then followed by this important qualifier:=20
>> "Upon the express direction of a Faculty member, the Provost or=20
>> the Provost=B9s designate will waive or suspend application of this=20
>> license for a particular article authored or co-authored by that=20
>> Faculty member."
>> So in other words, it's not an OA mandate, but rather an OA=20
>> "mandate." You're bound by it unless you ask not to be, in which=20
>> case you're not.
>>
>> 1. First, congratulations to Princeton University (my graduate alma
>> mater!) for adopting an open access mandate: a copyright-reservation
>> policy, adopted by unanimous faculty vote.
>> http://roarmap.eprints.org/520/
>> 2. Princeton is following in the footsteps of Harvard in adopting the
>> copyright-reservation policy pioneered by Stuart Shieber and Peter
>> Suber. http://roarmap.eprints.org/75/
>> 4. I hope that Princeton will now also follow in the footsteps of
>> Harvard by adding an immediate-deposit requirement with no waiver
>> option to its copyright-reservation mandate, as Harvard has done.
>> http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/545-guid.html
>> 5. The Princeton copyright-reservation policy, like the Harvard
>> copyright-reservation policy, can be waived if the author wishes: This
>> is to allow authors to retain the freedom to choose where to publish,
>> even if the journal does not agree to the copyright-reservation.
>> 6. Adding an immediate-deposit clause, with no opt-out waiver option,
>> retains all the properties and benefits of the copyright-reservation
>> policy while ensuring that all articles are nevertheless deposited in
>> the institutional repository upon publication, with no exceptions:
>> Access to the deposited article can be embargoed, but deposit itself
>> cannot; access is a copyright matter, deposit is not.
>> http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/364-guid.html
>> 7. Depositing all articles upon publication, without exception, is
>> crucial to reaching 100% open access with certainty, and as soon as
>> possible; hence it is the right example to set for the many other
>> universities worldwide that are now contemplating emulating Harvard
>> and Princeton by adopting open access policies of their own; copyright
>> reservation alone, with opt-out, is not.
>> http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/494-guid.html
>> 8. The reason it is imperative that the deposit clause must be
>> immediate and without a waiver option is that, without that, both when
>> and whether articles are deposited at all is indeterminate: With the
>> added deposit requirement the policy is a mandate; without it, it is
>> just a gentleman/scholar's agreement.
>> [Footnote: Princeton's open access policy is also unusual in having
>> been adopted before Princeton has created an open access repository
>> for its authors to deposit in: It might be a good idea to create the
>> repository as soon as possible so Princeton authors can get into the
>> habit of practising what they pledge from the outset...]
>> Stevan Harnad
>> EnablingOpenScholarship
>> http://www.openscholarship.org/
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