[GOAL] Internet Archive Mirroring in Canada to Protect from Trump

[Kathleen Shearer]

Hi Heather, all.

I think OA repositories are already moving in that direction. 

At COAR we are trying to promote widespread data exchange between repository networks so that there is redundancy across networks and multiple copies around the world. 

There is already significant sharing of metadata across networks -OpenAIRE, LA Referencia, SHARE, JAIRO (Japan), CORE and others - but I foresee in the near future that this will move beyond just metadata to fulltext. Actually some networks already are harvesting full text.

Fundamental to our vision is that there is distribution of the control of scholarly resources (pre-prints, post-prints, research data, supporting software, etc.). Without this, a small number of actors can gain too much control.

Best, Kathleen


Kathleen Shearer
Executive Director, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
m.kathleen.shearer at gmail.com <mailto:m.kathleen.shearer at gmail.com> - +1 514 992 9068
Skype: kathleen.shearer2 - twitter: @KathleeShearer




> On Nov 30, 2016, at 2:52 PM, Donat Agosti <agosti at amnh.org> wrote:
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> May be switzerland as an alternative – but then what happened to Snowden might not be stimulating enough…
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> From: goal-bounces at eprints.org <mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org> [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org <mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org>] On Behalf Of Heather Morrison
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> Subject: Re: [GOAL] Internet Archive Mirroring in Canada to Protect from Trump
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> Thank you for the alert, Stevan.
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> This might be a good moment to consider / re-consider the question of archiving for sustainable long-term open access. It is true that Canada is not the U.S. - but the U.S. is our main trading partner and a friendly neighbour but also a very powerful neighbour with whom we share not only a very long border but also intelligence information.
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> I argue that multiple copies of archives, not only in friendly neighbouring countries but also in regions that are different both geographically and politically, is in the best long-term interests of ongoing sharing of our collective knowledge.
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> Thoughts?
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> Heather Morrison
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> On 2016-11-30, at 11:12 AM, Stevan Harnad <amsciforum at gmail.com <mailto:amsciforum at gmail.com>>
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> We're only just beginning to see the long, dark reach of what the deplorables have wrought upon the planet... (Thank goodness the Canadian government today is Trudeau's liberals and not Harper's "conservatives.")
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