On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 9:04 AM, JQ Johnson <jqj_at_uoregon.edu> wrote:
> Does anyone have a recommendation for a brief introduction to licensing
> that helps a typical professor understand those obscure deposit mandate
> terms like "paid up" or "nonexclusive", or for that matter 17 USC 205(e)
> as it applies to an OA deposit mandate?
I have a better recommendation! Forget about licensing and obscure
terms. Just mandate the keystrokes.
http://bit.ly/7s4wwz No legal
expertise required:
"Deposit the final refereed draft in our Institutional Repository
immediately upon acceptance for publication. If the journal is among
the 63% that already endorse setting access to the deposit immediately
as Open Access -- see
http://romeo.eprints.org/publishers.html -- set
access to the deposit immediately as Open Access. Otherwise, set
access to the deposit as Closed Access. (Users webwide will be able to
use the repository's semi-automatic "email eprint request" Button so
you can tide over research usage needs during any embargo with just
one extra keystroke per request:
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/274-guid.html "
All for just a few keystrokes per paper.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10688/
This is the ID/OA Mandate, and it's the optimal one. You can add more
conditions or options if you wish, but it's unnecessary, and downright
inadvisable if it slows reaching consensus on adoption and compliance:
Harnad, S. (2008) Waking OA’s “Slumbering Giant”: The University's
Mandate To Mandate Open Access. New Review of Information Networking
14(1): 51 - 68
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/17298/
"Which Green OA Mandate Is Optimal?"
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/494-guid.html
"The Immediate-Deposit/Optional-Access (ID/OA) Mandate: Rationale and Model"
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html
"Optimizing OA Self-Archiving Mandates: What? Where? When? Why? How?"
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html
"How To Integrate University and Funder Open Access Mandates"
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/369-guid.html
"Upgrade Harvard's Opt-Out Copyright Retention Mandate: Add a
No-Opt-Out Deposit Clause"
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/364-guid.html
Stevan Harnad
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 9:04 AM, JQ Johnson <jqj_at_uoregon.edu> wrote:
> Suppose you are working with your faculty Senate to adopt an OA deposit mandate that is structured around a licensing agreement (cf. Harvard etc.). Many faculty will be baffled by the issues and need an introduction to OA, to copyright law, to the life cycle of a scholarly publication, and to licensing. Their attention spans will be short, so the introduction needs to hit just the high points needed to understand an OA mandate.
>
> There are lots of good introductions to Open Access (e.g. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm) and copyright law (e.g. fairuse.stanford.edu). There are also of course the various SPARC publications like "create change" which I think are about right for faculty in terms of level of detail and length.
>
> Does anyone have a recommendation for a brief introduction to licensing that helps a typical professor understand those obscure deposit mandate terms like "paid up" or "nonexclusive", or for that matter 17 USC 205(e) as it applies to an OA deposit mandate?
>
> JQ Johnson
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