On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 4:27 AM, CHARLES OPPENHEIM <<a href="mailto:c.oppenheim@btinternet.com">c.oppenheim@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
The solution for a young researcher needing publications is to submit their article to a prestigious Green-friendly journal, and post in a repository, OR submit the article to a prestigious OA journal like PLoS.</blockquote>
<br>Almost exactly the right advice! -- but not quite:<br><br><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">
The solution for a young researcher needing publications is to submit their article to the most appropriate journal, with the highest quality standards the research can meet -- <i>and always deposit the final draft in their repository immediately upon acceptance for publication.</i></blockquote>
<div><br></div>If the journal is Green-OA-friendly (or Gold-OA), make the deposit OA immediately.<br><br>If the journal is anti-Green-OA (i.e., if it embargoes OA), make the deposit <i>Closed Access</i> instead of OA (and, with the help of the repository's automated <i>"email eprint request" button</i>, provide a single copy for research purposes with one button press to any would-be user who, with one button press, requests a copy for research purposes).<br>
<br>Obviously, if there are two journals of equal appropriateness and equal quality standards, pick the Green-friendly or Gold one over the anti-Green one. <div><br></div><div>All of the above is the rationale for the Immediate-Deposit/Optional-Access Mandate, which is the one that all universities, research institutions and research funders should adopt, worldwide.</div>
<div><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html">http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Stevan Harnad</div><div>EnablingOpenAcholarship (EOS)</div>
<div><a href="http://www.openscholarship.org/jcms/c_6226/open-access-policies-for-universities-and-research-institutions?hlText=policie">http://www.openscholarship.org/jcms/c_6226/open-access-policies-for-universities-and-research-institutions?hlText=policie</a><br>
</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 4:27 AM, CHARLES OPPENHEIM <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:c.oppenheim@btinternet.com">c.oppenheim@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I agree with what Stevan and Andrew have said. The idea that someone who has an access problem goes to a colleague in a different institution to get them to help out would be a breach of the e journal licence by that colleague. I know of cases where the e journal publisher has cut off an entire university from access to its suite of journal for a lengthy period because it discovered that an academic was forwarding full text to people outside the institution.</span></div>
<div><span><br></span></div><div><span>The solution for a young researcher needing publications is to submit their article to a prestigious Green-friendly journal, and post in a repository, OR submit the article to a prestigious OA journal like
PLoS.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Charles</span></div><div> </div><div>Professor Charles Oppenheim<br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">
<div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Andrew A. Adams <<a href="mailto:aaa@MEIJI.AC.JP" target="_blank">aaa@MEIJI.AC.JP</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM@LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG" target="_blank">AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM@LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG</a><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 4 November 2011, 0:51<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: The affordability problem vs. the accessibility problem<br></font><br>> I think there is a tendency to overly generalize the access problem which, =<br>> in my mind, is primarily a problem with the biomedical literature.<br>
><br>> Lack of
access, by members of the general public who need to go from PubMed=<br>> to the full text, is obviously very frustrating.<br>><br>> My sense, however, is that few serious researchers or students are truly h=<br>
> aving a problem with access to the scientific literature.<br><br>I disagree completely. There is a serious access problem. It is particularly<br>bad for researchers at mid-level/mid-size research universities who don't<br>
have the library resources that the larger top-level research universities<br>have. I would put CalTech in that latter group, I think. It is also much more<br>of a problem for inter/multidisciplinary researchers (*). I estimate that<br>
around half of the articles I wish to access are behind toll gates for which<br>the individual article charge is usually $35. A colleague of mine from the<br>University of Reading is currently on sabbatical and attached to University<br>
College London in a visiting
position and is delighted with the extra access<br>to the journal literature (primarily electronic via their VPN) that their<br>library is able to afford over that which Reading is able to do so.<br><br>(*) The reason that this is more of a problem for them (us, I should say<br>
since it includes myself) is that they eed access to a wider range of<br>literature and not just a small set of core journals. My own work has<br>referenced (only what I can access) journals from fields including history,<br>
sociology, computer science, politics, regional studies, psychology, law, and<br>others. Neither my previous nor my current university has groups studying all<br>these in the particular subfields that I want and therefore has no group<br>
pushing for access to all the different journals I need access to (typically<br>I want access to one specific article in each journal, occasionally a whole<br>special issue) and hence they are not on either university's
subscription<br>list and I have to scratch around or wait for paper ILL (which still costs).<br>Typically I will contact the author if I can find their details and ask for<br>an eprint, which sometimes works, but which sometimes leads an author who has<br>
the same attitude as you to simply point me at the publisher's website to pay<br>their toll access fee (I try not to get angry when this happens in response<br>to a request for an Open Access version or an emailed eprint).<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>--<br>Professor Andrew A Adams <a href="mailto:aaa@meiji.ac.jp" target="_blank">aaa@meiji.ac.jp</a><br>Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and<br>Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics<br>
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan <a href="http://www.a-cubed.info/" target="_blank">http://www.a-cubed.info/</a><br><br><br></font></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>