Re: Why Cornell's Institutional Repository Is Near-Empty

From: Jeffery, KG (Keith) <"Jeffery,>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:34:30 -0000

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Following the suggestion (Michael Carroll) that a slideset should be available to assist persons perusading others about OA (and specifically green OA) I suggested to Stevan that he should make his excellent set available. His reply (with the URL of the conference) is below. The specific URL for his slideset is http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/harnad-1-022007_en.pdf

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-----Original Message-----
From: Stevan Harnad [mailto:harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk]
Sent: 22 March 2007 18:06
To: Jeffery, KG (Keith)
Subject: Re: FW: Re: Why Cornell's Institutional Repository Is Near-Empty

Hi Keith,

They're on the EU site; Alma's too:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/page_en.cfm?id=3460

Worth posting a notice to that effect.

Hope you're mending well!

Chrs, S

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Jeffery, KG (Keith) wrote:

> S
> Just to you
> Perhaps you could make available your ppt set - as I recall you have
> all the stats, graphs etc K
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Scientist Open Access Forum
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> On Behalf Of Andrew A. Adams
> Sent: 21 March 2007 05:45
> To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
> Subject: Re: Why Cornell's Institutional Repository Is Near-Empty
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> Michael W. Carroll wrote:
>
> At least on American campuses, faculty are much more likely to support a mandate if they vote to impose it upon themselves rather than have it imposed by an administrator. Look for a faculty champion who would be willing to take on this cause.
>
>
> I think this is the most sensible way forward where it has been difficult to persuade administrators directly. Administrators being preached at from outside may well be more easily persuaded if they see a ground-swell of support building amongst the academic faculty. The best way to work on faculty is through their colleagues.
>
> One way to help this would be to produce a ten slide presentation
> (available in a number of common formats, including ppt, odp (open
> document
> presentation) and pdf) with the most compelling case aimed at persuading collegaues of their own best interest in supporting an OA mandate, along the lines of:
>
> -- Depositing your work improves your visibility and citation count
> (evidence including graphs and tables);
>
> -- Depositing your work in a sparse IR is less use than in a full IR;
>
> -- An IR with a deposit mandate is the way to a full IR (evidence
> including graphs and tables);
>
> -- If everyone is mandated to deposit, the time spent on deposit
> (which is less than you think it will be) will count directly towards
> institutional evaluation of you, and not you relying on jam tomorrow,
> while others make hay today;
>
> -- The Prisoner's Dilemma presentation of how, if we all deposit we all benefit both from access to other's work and others accessing our own.
>
>
> I've been trying for three years now to move a deposit along at my Unviersity, but even my on School's head of research hasn't been easy to convince of the case. I believe, but I don't have the time to search out and put together the case in a compelling way, and since this is a common need, we should, as a community, only need to do it once as a platform and then allow others to make use of it.
>
> Of course, the case could be localised to various types of university and various faculties/disciplines/subjects, but that could be done after an initial presentation is developed.
>
>
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