Apparently it is indeed untrue that it's illegal to mandate Green OA self-archiving in Germany. (Many thanks to Eloy Rodrigues for forwarding the following.)<div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<div lang="PT" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">On 26/11/2012 09:03, "Eloy Rodrigues" <<a style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline">eloy@sdum.uminho.pt</a>> wrote:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">The speech from the German ambassador at Berlin 10 is available here: <a href="http://www.southafrica.diplo.de/Vertretung/suedafrika/en/__pr/Speeches-Freitag/11-07-2012-Open-Access.html?archive=3519722" target="_blank" style="color:purple">http://www.southafrica.diplo.de/Vertretung/suedafrika/en/__pr/Speeches-Freitag/11-07-2012-Open-Access.html?archive=3519722</a><br>
<br>It has</span><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">… </span></font><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">announced [the] new German law for Open Access</span><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">…</span></font><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">.</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">“</span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:'Lucida Sans',sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The German government is currently introducing legislation guiding the implementation process of Open Access. It will take into account our constitutionally guaranteed rights, especially freedom of expression, freedom of scientific research and intellectual property rights. Against that background, the envisaged reform of our copyright and intellectual property law will, as a first step, most likely follow along the lines of the “Green Road”...l”</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br>
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<br><img border="0" width="98" height="58" src="cid:image004.jpg@01CDCBC6.4C469670"></span></p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Stevan Harnad <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amsciforum@gmail.com" target="_blank">amsciforum@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We have heard it </span><a href="http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&lr=&q=harnad%20OR%20Harnad%20OR%20archivangelism+blogurl:http://openaccess.eprints.org/&ie=UTF-8&tbm=blg&tbs=qdr:m&num=100&c2coff=1&safe=active#hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=active&tbm=blg&sclient=psy-ab&q=(german+OR+germany)+(Copyright+OR+freedom+OR+legal+OR+freedom)+blogurl:http%3A%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&oq=(german+OR+germany)+(Copyright+OR+freedom+OR+legal+OR+freedom)+blogurl:http%3A%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&gs_l=serp.12...30593.32815.3.35597.11.11.0.0.0.3.350.1283.5j4j0j1.10.0.les%3B..0.1...1c.1.WkMCZbfWLzU&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=3021f0429232a004&bpcl=38625945&biw=1263&bih=683" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank">repeatedly claimed</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, without evidence or argument, that in Germany </span><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/109377556796183035206/posts/drJqNn5oZNy" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank">it would be illegal</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> to mandate that authors self-archive their final drafts of peer-reviewed articles because it would be a "violation of academic freedom."</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I have never believed this claim, and do not even think it is coherent. </span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">A Green OA self-archiving mandate leaves authors free to publish whatever they wish and to publish it in whatever journal they wish. It merely requires them to deposit the final, accepted draft in an institutional repository. </span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">(Most Green OA mandates don't even require the deposit to be made OA immediately: they allow it to be left in Closed Access during a publisher embargo period: About 60% of journals do not have OA embargoes; 40% have embargoes of from 6-12 months to several years or more.)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hence the requirement to deposit is merely an administrative mandate -- like requiring that publications be submitted electronically rather than on paper, for performance evaluation. (Was that a violation of academic freedom in Germany too?)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The "illegal in Germany" claim has been made over and over, in and about Germany. It invariably turns out to be based on the incorrect assumption that it entails putting a constraint on authors' academic freedom. Instead of just repeating the claim, like hearsay, endlessly, I urge advocates and opponents of OA alike to first get it clear in their minds exactly what a Green OA self-archiving mandate mandates, and then to state explicitly how or why it violates authors' academic freedom.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">But be careful not to conflate Green OA self-archiving mandates with Gold OA publishing mandates: The latter would require authors to publish in Gold OA journals rather than their journals of choice; or they would forbid authors to publish in journals that embargo Green OA. Such mandates would indeed be constraining authors' academic freedom.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">But Gold OA publishing is not what most OA mandates require. They just require Green OA self-archiving. (See </span><a href="http://roarmap.eprints.org/" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank">ROARMAP</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> -- and you will see that there are already some Green OA mandates in Germany.)</span><div>
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Stevan Harnad</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Further discussion: </span><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/959-.html" target="_blank">http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/959-.html</a></div>
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