No physical danger, surely, but I'm sure I'm not the only librarian
who's been informed that her job is in jeopardy if she irks faculty
with all that commie talk about open access.
Cat. Mouse. Bell. I stand by the fable's motto particularly.
Dorothea
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Les A Carr <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 2 Oct 2011, at 17:27, Dorothea Salo wrote:
>> Lovely, O Mouse. Will you be belling the cat, then?
>> (Reference: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/cat.html )
>
> In this scenario the mice are the librarians - bystanders, observers and facilitators - not actually in any physical danger from faculty (the cats), but definitely not in charge of them. So I am afraid that the cats (the academics of all ranks and persuasions) have to become responsible for belling themselves.
>
> For my reflections on the powerlessness of librarians and the responsibility of academics in furthering the OA agenda, see http://repositoryman.blogspot.com/2008/01/journey-of-thousand-miles-begins-with.html
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> Les Carr
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>>
>> Dorothea
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Kornbrot, Diana
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> 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:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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