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Importance of Request-Copy Button in Implementing HEFCE/REF Immediate-Deposit...
Cambridge University has provided a very clear step-by-step statement of how to comply with the new HEFCE/REF OA Policy, as well as the RCUK OA policy, and they are implementing it immediately:"This...
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Publisher Open Access Embargoes and the Copy-Request Button
To derive the full benefit of the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology (FIRST) Act, it is now extremely important that all universities and research institutions implement the...
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DSpace & EPrints Help Authors Provide Access During Publisher OA Embargoes
DSpace follows (not quite "leads"!) EPrints in providing access (not quite"Open Access"!) to research during publisher OA embargo periods (via the facilitated Request-Copy...
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Open Access in China: Time is of the Essence
Important Addendum and Correction from Eloy Rodrigues (June 19):The CAS mandate is for immediate deposit: CAS requires its researchers and graduate students to deposit an electronic version of the...
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If You Were Composing the Subversive Proposal Today...
Richard Poynder:"If you were composing the Subversive Proposal today how different would it be? Would it be different? If so, would you care to rephrase it to fit todays environment? In other words,...
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DOE: The Importance of Requiring Institutional Repository Deposit Immediately...
A peer-reviewed journal article is either accessible to all of its potential users or it is not accessible to all of its potential users (but only to those at subscribing institutions). Open Access...
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The Fruits of Finch/RCUK Profligacy (and Publishing Lobby Success)
Here they are:Cornée, Nathalie and Madjarevic, Natalia (2014) The London School of Economics and Political Science 2013/2014 RCUK open access compliance report. The London School of Economics and...
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Estimating Open Access Mandate Effectiveness: I. The MELIBEA Score
Estimating Open Access Mandate Effectiveness: I. The MELIBEA Score Philippe Vincent-Lamarre, Jade Boivin, Yassine Gargouri, Vincent Lariviere, Stevan HarnadABSTRACT:MELIBEA is a Spanish database that...
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How to Get Open Access Mandates on the Fast Track
In my own opinion there have been four main reasons for the exceedingly slow growth of OA (far, far slower than it could have been) (1) author inertia and needless copyright worries, (2) publisher...
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Why Doesn't Elsevier State the Truth, Openly?
I will not do yet another detailed, point-by-point rebuttal in response to Alicia/Elsevier's latest tergiversations ("COAR-recting the record"), just to have it all once again ignored, and instead...
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On Horses, Water, and Life-Span
"I have a feeling that when Posterity looks back at the last decade of the 2nd A.D. millennium of scholarly and scientific research on our planet, it may chuckle at us... I don't think there is any...
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Evolutionarily Stable Strategies
[This comment was written before I read Richard Poynder's Interview of Tim Gowers. In part 2 I comment after having read the posting.]Part 1 I don't know about Richard, but I have not despaired of...
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Immediate OA in EU by 2020?
The means are still somewhat vague but the determination to reach the goal of having all scientific articles freely accessible (OA) immediately by 2020 is welcome. The goal is definitely reachable, and...
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Measuring Open Access Mandate Compliance
To measure compliance with an immediate-deposit (Green OA) mandate, the following would provide an estimate:1. Require immediate deposit of the dated letter of acceptance. 2. Require immediate deposit...
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Rationale for Requiring Immediate Deposit Upon Acceptance
There are multiple reasons for depositing the AAM (Author Accepted Manuscript) immediately upon acceptance:1. The date of acceptance is known. The date of publication is not. It is often long after...
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