[BOAI] Fwd: [GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] RE: Simple Explanation of the Green Road

[Stevan Harnad]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Beall, Jeffrey <Jeffrey.Beall at ucdenver.edu> wrote:
I found the advice given in this "explanation" to be cavalier. The document says,

AAA: "Don't let a lawyer worry you with tales of copyright infringement lawsuits. No publisher has ever sued a university over making their academics' papers available. At most you need to respond to "take-down" requests by setting access to closed instead of open (never remove a paper from the IR, just set its access as closed, unless the paper is formally withdrawn by the journal for academic misconduct)."

Professor Adams, is this the type of practice you teach your students in your business ethics classes?

I work at a state-sponsored university, and here we are obliged to respect the existing laws. We also want to maintain good working relationships with publishers and to set a good example for our students. We don't do business like this.

I would encourage people to reject Professor Adams' insolent advice.

(1) I would encourage Professor Beall to reserve the word "insolent" for private, personal contexts. Please keep public postings impersonal and temperate.

(2) I would like to suggest that if the authors of the c. 800,000 papers they have been self-archiving in Arxiv since 1991 had made the mistake of following the advice of Professor Beall, instead of the advice of Professor Adams, then Physics would have lost a goodly chunk of Open Access (OA) and Research impact for the last 2 decades.

There are at least 38 profound misconceptions that have been retarding the progress of OA worldwide for the past 2 decades. Professor Beall apparently champions (at least) one of the most groundless and deleterious of them.

Professor Adams's advice is spot-on. If you're not convinced, deposit immediately, set access to "closed," and let the repository's semi-automated "email-eptint-request" Button provide "Almost-OA" until you update to where the physicists (and computer scientists, and close to 20% of the authors in most other disciplines) have been since 1991 -- and UK, EU and US Green OA mandates from institutions and funders will fast-forward to 100% 'ere much longer...

Stevan Harnad
 

 

 

Jeffrey Beall, MA, MSLS, Associate Professor

Scholarly Initiatives Librarian
Auraria Library
University of Colorado Denver
1100 Lawrence St.
Denver, Colo.  80204 USA
(303) 556-5936
jeffrey.beall at ucdenver.edu

 



 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf Of Andrew A. Adams
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 6:11 PM
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
Subject: [GOAL] Simple Explanation of the Green Road

 

 

Having written too many emails individually to people explaining the Green Road to Open Access and what I see as the optimum route and the errors various universities make in attempting to implement the Green Road, I was moved to write up a simple guide on my web site. Should you agree with the approach, please feel free to refer people to this guide.

 

http://www.a-cubed.info/OA/

 

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Professor Andrew A Adams                      aaa at meiji.ac.jp

Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics

Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/

 

 

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