[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 withdrawn by the journal for academic misconduct)."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<http://www.a-cubed.info/OA/>
> .
>
(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-archived in
Arxiv<http://arxiv.org/show_monthly_submissions> 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<http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/268511/>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...

Stevan Harnad


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