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<div>I don't find the advice overall nearly as objectionable as
Jeffrey does--and I speak as a former publisher of academic journals.
After all, the advice does include this important caveat: "The
policy must not try to require the publisher's formatted PDF or any
copyediting, just the author's final text - authors can include any
copyedits or broader meta-data if they wish but the policy must not
require it." (I think Prof. Adams might want to qualify that
latter advice by saying that authors who include copyediting do so at
their own legal risk; they could be sued for breach of contract.)
I don't see much here that Stevan harnad, for example, has not said
many times--including the use of the eprint request button.</div>
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<div>Sandy Thatcher</div>
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<div>At 11:17 AM -0600 9/24/12, Beall, Jeffrey wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>I found the advice given in this
"explanation" to be cavalier. The document
says,</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>"Don't let a lawyer worry you with
tales of copyright infringement lawsuits. No publisher has ever sued a
university over making their academics' papers available. At most you
need to respond to "take-down" requests by setting access to
closed instead of open (never remove a paper from the IR, just set its
access as closed, unless the paper is formally withdrawn by the
journal for academic misconduct)."</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Professor Adams, is this the type of
practice you teach your students in your business ethics
classes?</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>I work at a state-sponsored university,
and here we are obliged to respect the existing laws. We also want to
maintain good working relationships with publishers and to set a good
example for our students. We don't do business like this.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>I would encourage people to reject
Professor Adams' insolent <a
href="http://www.a-cubed.info/OA/">advice</a>.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Jeffrey Beall, MA, MSLS, Associate
Professor</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Scholarly Initiatives Librarian<br>
Auraria Library<br>
University of Colorado Denver<br>
1100 Lawrence St.<br>
Denver, Colo. 80204 USA<br>
(303) 556-5936<br>
<a href="">jeffrey.beall@ucdenver.edu</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: goal-bounces@eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org] On
Behalf Of Andrew A. Adams<br>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 6:11 PM<br>
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)<br>
Subject: [GOAL] Simple Explanation of the Green Road</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Having written too many emails
individually to people explaining the Green Road to Open Access and
what I see as the optimum route and the errors various universities
make in attempting to implement the Green Road, I was moved to write
up a simple guide on my web site. Should you agree with the approach,
please feel free to refer people to this guide.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href="http://www.a-cubed.info/OA/">http://www.a-cubed.info/OA/</a></blockquote
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>--</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Professor Andrew A
Adams <span
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<a href="mailto:aaa@meiji.ac.jp">aaa@meiji.ac.jp</a></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Professor at Graduate School of Business
Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business
Information Ethics</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Meiji University, Tokyo,
Japan <a
href="http://www.a-cubed.info/">http://www.a-cubed.info/</a></blockquote
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