[GOAL] Ease of access to deposited reprints in repositories (Plan B)

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 10:24 PM, <brentier at ulg.ac.be> wrote:

> Good evening,
>
>

> 2. I wish to remind those who acknowledge that only a strong mandate
> linked to evaluation procedures can generate compliance but who believe it
> is too coercive, that in many institutions (mine at least) and for a long
> time, researchers MUST deposit a reprint of each of their publications in
> the local library. Coercion level is just equivalent.
>
> In the UK some of us are looking for an alternative to signing up with yet
another big deal (the latest Jisc deal with Elsevier was seen as a massive
missed opportunity). If articles can be obtained from other sources (e.g.
repositories) this is a massive help to bargaining.

Liege is one of the leading repositories. To be effective in changing the
access to science (I concentrate on STM material) a repository must:

* provide full text of the manuscript. (metadata is of little value to most
scientists)
* support and encourage unlimited machine download and search
* remove any barriers such as having to mail authors, contact libraries,
ask for permissions, read licences, etc.
* ideally not have an embargo.
* actively support scientists/scholars wishing to download repository
content.

If all repositories did this - and it's technically possible - then we
might change the face of scholarly publishing.

However when I mailed OpenAIRE some weeks agao I was told I couldn't get
full text - it was coming RSN. Many repositories only allow their own
university staff to view some/all of the content.

The original point of repositories - 15+ years ago - was to make
scholarship freely and universally available.

How close are Liege and others to providing full free frictionless access
to all deposited full text?

P.





In the UK
If ever institution

Best regards,

Bernard Rentier, Liège.



-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dept. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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