[GOAL] Re: [Open-access] Re: Re: Fight Publishing Lobby's Latest "FIRST" Act to Delay OA - Nth Successor to PRISM, RWA etc.

[Arthur Sale]

Stevan

 

There is no need to wait and indeed we are not. The scholarly community is
completely capable of acting on both text and data at the same time, and
indeed has been for at least five years. This is to be praised not
denigrated. 

 

Open access data is within our easy reach, because there are no publishers
involved. I would have to check, but I believe that all of the 30+
Australian universities are already signed up to open access of research
data through the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) project. Details
need to resolved and open access of research data is not fully implemented,
but it is a long way ahead of scholarly published text. I would be surprised
if the UK and the USA were much different. Let's take the apples in our
reach while we continue to struggle to pick the high ones on the top
branches.

 

Software is only different because the potential profit symbol winks
mesmerizingly but deceptively into the eyes of universities. It is largely
mythical. It does not apply to data.

 

Best wishes

 

Arthur

 

From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf
Of Stevan Harnad
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Subject: [GOAL] Re: [Open-access] Re: Re: Fight Publishing Lobby's Latest
"FIRST" Act to Delay OA - Nth Successor to PRISM, RWA etc.

 

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Bjoern Brembs <b.brembs at gmail.com> wrote:

 

[Arthur] .

 

I would expand green mandates to cover not only text, but also data and
software.

 

Can we wait, please, until they at least cover (journal article) text,
rather than demanding even more when we don't yet even have less?

 

[Arthur] .

 

Stevan Harnad

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