[GOAL] Re: US Presidential Open Access Directive: 3 Cheers and 8 Suggestions

[Andrew A. Adams]

Peter,

Thank you for the correction. I mis-remembered the mandate from these (I 
think a bit confusingly named) systems. Too late to send a correction to an 
organisation like the White House. Hopefully if anyone who understand it well 
enough for it to be useful actually reads it, they will also spot and 
discount the error.

On your point on central deposit, I beg to differ, as you know. Deposit 
locally then harvest centrally is far more sensible than trying to mandate 
different deposit loci for the various authors in an institution. It's easy 
enough to automatically harvest/cross-deposit, and then one gets the best of 
all worlds. Central deposit and then local harvest is the wrong workflow. 
It's trying to make a river flow upstream. Sure, you can do it, but why 
bother if all you need is a connection one way or the other. ALl the benefits 
you claim simply come from deposit, not direct deposit, in central 
repositories. Which would you recommend for medical physics, by the way? 
ArXiv or PMC? Both surely, but that's much more easily achieved if the 
workflow is to deposit locally then automatically upload/harvest to both, 
than two central deposits or trying to set up cross-harvesting from ArXiv to 
PMC.


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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/