Please register IR self-archiving policies in ROARMAP

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 12:52:14 +0100

On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Waaijers, Leo wrote:

> Dear Stevan,
>
> Yes, please register the DARE policy

    http://www.darenet.nl/en/page/language.view/darenet.institution.page

> in ROARMAP.

    http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php

> Hopefully we will be able to publish an update quite soon.

Dear Leo,

Many thanks. It will be registered immediately. DARE has done a splendid job, and has made
Netherlands an OA Lamp Unto the Nations!

> As you may know, in SURF we have
> defined a Licence to Publish that authors could use instead of the
> classical give-away copyright statement that publishers ask them to
> sign. Via the Licence the author gives the publisher permission to
> publish his article but he also states explicitly that he will keep all
> the other rights. And he announces that he will use his rights to post
> the admitted version of his article in the repository of his institute
> immediately and to give open access to it unless his publisher objects
> to that. In that case he will postpone the open access but only for a
> maximal period of half a year after which it will be opened up anyway.

Bravo!

> Thanks for your explanation of the [EMAIL EPRINT] request button.
>> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5293.html
>> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5297.html
>> http://www.eprints.org/news/features/request_button.php
> I understand the idea better now. We will recommend it to the DARE
> community but for the non-DSpace [or EPrints] users, the majority, some
> software development is needed. The request button matches perfectly
> with the Licence: as long as the documents are under embargo the request
> button is a good surrogate. However, as everybody is working like mad
> to meet the hunDAREd thousand limit (100.000 openly accessible full text
> publications in DAREnet) before the end of this year, I am not sure that
> this will be realised immediately.

Yes, meeting that milestone by December should be the first priority. I
am sure both Tim Miles-Board of EPrints who designed the original version,
and Eloy of Rodrigues of Minho, who very kindly (and rapidly!) designed one
for DSpace, will both be happy to advise the DARE software developers on how
to implement the button, and it will not take long!

Best wishes and many congratulations,

Stevan


-------------------------------
>>> Dear Stevan,
>>>
>>> As you may have seen, ROAR has registered 20 repositories from the
>>> Netherlands now, including all the DAREnet repositories.
>
>> Dear Leo,
>>
>> Yes, I know, those repositories have been in registered in ROAR for some
>> time, but what I was hoping for was the registration of the DARE policy
>> in
>> ROARMAP: http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/
>>
>>> I also posted the text about the 'central policy' of DARE to
>>> http://www.darenet.nl/nl/page/language.view/repositories .
>>
>> I think you meant this:
>>
>> http://www.darenet.nl/en/page/language.view/darenet.institution.page
>>
>> An excellent summary. May I register it in ROARMAP? Not as a mandate
>> (because it isn't) but nevertheless as a policy (which it is).
>>
>> The "Email Eprint" button, which is now implemented in both EPrints and
>> DSpace, is definitely not a pay-per-view button, it is a semi-automatic
>> eprint-request button, it is free, and it is almost immediate (hence
>> almost OA).
>>
>> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5293.html
>> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5297.html
>> http://www.eprints.org/news/features/request_button.php
>>
>> And it is only for documents where the full-text is deposited, but in
>> Closed Access rather than Open Access, with only its metadata openly
>> accessible. The very *purpose* of the "Email Eprint" button is to induce
>> authors to deposit the full-text immediately (and to induce institutions
>> to mandate it), free of legal concerns and regardless of whether
>> access is set to Open or Closed. (The idea is to avoid delayed deposit,
>> non-deposit, or deposit of only the metadata without the full-text.)
>>
>> I do hope you will recommend it as a software feature to the 20
>> repositories, and Immediate-Deposit/Optional-Access as policy for their
>> institutions!
>>
>> http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Stevan
>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Leo.
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