Re: The Liege IR Mandate is definitely (Immediate Deposit/Optional Access -- Dual Deposit/Release) (fwd)

From: leo waaijers <leowaa_at_XS4ALL.NL>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 18:49:58 +0100

Dear Klaus Graf,

I think this debate is useless. I read your lengthy comment and
ultimately your point is that the Liège Mandate does not go beyond
the well known fair use clause. I think you are right; the Liège
Mandate is converting 'fair use' into 'smart use'. It is a
non-confronting endeavour to bypass the proprietary review process of
the big publishing houses. Why calling it nonsense? It is just one
way to better access to knowledge and Stevan Harnad and Bernard
Rentier are strong believers in it. So, please Klaus Graf, what's
your point?

Leo Waaijers.

Stevan Harnad wrote:

      ---------- Forwarded message ----------
      Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 10:08:30 -0500
      From: Bernard Rentier <brentier_at_ULG.AC.BE>
      To:
      AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
      Subject: The Liege IR Mandate is definitely IDOA/DDR
          (Immediate-Deposit/Optional-Access -- Dual
      Deposit/Release)

      Yesterday, Klaus Graf reacted rather strongly to the
      announcement of the
      Liège University repository mandate, stating t[in the
      American Scientist
      Open Access Forum] that its "practice and legal framework
      is nonsense."

          http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5420548/
         http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/sc/wa.exe?A2=ind09&L=american-scientist-open-a
      ccess-forum&D=1&O=D&F=l&S=&P=339

      It seems to me that perhaps he may have missed a few
      essential aspects
      of this mandate, essentially the way it is handled in
      practice, the
      legal wherewithal and the reasons for imposing it.

      Below is the English translation of the message I have
      sent to the whole
      University Community on November 26, 2008. I believe
      that, rather than
      a lengthy explanation of how the Liège mandate works,
      this message tells
      it all much better.

      It may perhaps be useful as well for those who wish to
      find a way to
      obtain compliance with their universities.  It
      demonstrates also
      that the Liège Mandate is indeed IDOA/DDR
      (Immediate-Deposit/Optional-
      Access -- Dual Deposit/Release), to use the latest
      definitions coined in
      this forum.

      Happy New Year to all !

      Bernard Rentier

      ------------

          Madame, Monsieur, Cher(e) Collègue,

          The increase in international visibility of the ULg
      [Université
          de Liège] and its researchers, mainly through their
      publications,
          as well as the support for the  worldwide 
      development of an open
          and free access to scientific works (Open Access) are
      two essential
          objectives at the heart of my action, as you probably
      know.

          At my request, the Institutional Repository "ORBi"
      (Open Repository &
          Bibliography; http://orbi.ulg.ac.be ) has been set up
      at the ULg by
          the Libraries Network to meet these objectives.

          [1] The experimental encoding phase based on
      volunteerism being now
          successfully completed, we can step forward and enter
      the "production
          phase" this Wednesday November 26th, 2008. I take
      this opportunity
          to thank all the professors and researchers who have
      already filed
          in ORBi hundreds of their references, 70% of them
      with the full
          text. Thanks to their patience, ORBi's fine tuning
      could be achieved.

          From today onward, it is incumbent upon each ULg
      member to feed ORBi
          with his/her own references. In this respect, the
      Administrative
          Board of the University has decided to make it
      mandatory for all
          ULg members:

              - to deposit the bibliographic references of ALL
      their
              publications since 2002;

              - to deposit the full text of ALL their articles
      published in
              periodicals since 2002.

              Access to these full texts will only be granted
      with the author's
              consent and according to the rules applicable to
      author's rights
              and copyrights. The University is indeed very
      keen on respecting
              the rights of all stakeholders.

          [2] For future publications, deposit in ORBi will be
      mandatory as
          soon as the article is accepted by the editor.

          [3] I wish to remind you that, as announced a year in
      March 2007,
          starting October 1st, 2009 *only those references
      introduced in ORBi
          will be taken into consideration as the official list
      of publications
          accompanying any curriculum vitæ in all evaluation
      procedures 'in
          house' (designations, promotions, grant applications,
      etc.).*

          Information seminars have been planned during the
      next months
          to allow every one of you to make the tool your own
      thing (see
          http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/news?id=06). Help is also
      accessible on line;
          such as the simplified user's guide (also available
      as a leaflet)
          and the Depositor's Guide.

          The development of ORBi offers multiple advantages
      not only to the
          Institution, but also to the researchers and their
      teams, such as:

              - a considerable speeding up of the dissemination
      and visibility
              of the scientific works (as soon as publication
      approval is
              granted;

              - a considerable increase in visibility for the
      published works
              through referencing in the main search engines
      (Googlescholar,
              OAI metaengines, etc.);

              - centralised and perennial conservation of
      publications allowing
              multiple exploitation possibilities (integration
      in personal
              web pages, in institutional web pages, export of
      reference lists
              towards other applications and to funding
      organisations such as
              the Belgian National Fund for Scientific
      Research); - etc.

          I hope that, despite the time you are going to devote
      to this
          somewhat tedious task, you will soon realise the
      benefits of this
          institutional policy.

          With many thanks,

          Bernard Rentier
          Rector
          University of Liege
          7, place du 20 Aout
          4000 Liege, Belgium
          Tel: +32-4-366 9700
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