[GOAL] Re: BiorXiv: Deposit Institutionally, Export Centrally

[Stevan Harnad]

On 2013-11-13, at 6:54 AM, "Denkinson, Grant" <gd41 at LEICESTER.AC.UK> wrote:

> Stevan Harnad writes;
>> For Arxiv, institutional repositories can import instead of export. 
> 
> Can we harvest papers from ArXiv?
> 
> http://arxiv.org/help/bulk_data has: 
> Note: Most articles submitted to arXiv are submitted with the default arXiv license 
> which grants arXiv a perpetual, non-exclusive license to distribute the article but
> does not assign copyright to arXiv, nor grant arXiv the right to grant any specific
> rights to others. We are thus unable to grant others the right to distribute arXiv
> articles. If you build indexes or tools based on the full-text you must link back
> to arXiv for downloads. A small fraction of submissions are made with other
> licenses and this information is available in the OAI-PMH metadata.
> 
> So if a paper from our university is on ArXiv can we put it in our institutional
> repository on behalf of the author?

Of course. 

Or, if you feel timid: just import the metadata and point the URL to Arxiv. 
OA is OA. Deposit locus only matters for making mandates work.

(You can collect the full text a few years later, when all the superfluous fuss and
confusion have subsided and mandatory global Green OA has prevailed…)

Stevan Harnad