[GOAL] Re: Simple Explanation of the Green Road

[Beall, Jeffrey]

I found the advice given in this "explanation" to be cavalier. The document says,



"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closed instead of open (never remove a paper from the IR, just set its access as closed, unless the paper is formally withdrawn by the journal for academic misconduct)."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<http://www.a-cubed.info/OA/>.



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

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Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 6:11 PM
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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<mailto: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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