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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>I found the advice given in this "explanation" to be cavalier. The document says, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'>"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closed instead of open (never remove a paper from the IR, just set its access as closed, unless the paper is formally withdrawn by the journal for academic misconduct)."<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Professor Adams, is this the type of practice you teach your students in your business ethics classes?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I would encourage people to reject Professor Adams' insolent <a href="http://www.a-cubed.info/OA/">advice</a>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#262626'>Jeffrey Beall, MA, MSLS, Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#262626'>Scholarly Initiatives Librarian<br>Auraria Library<br>University of Colorado Denver<br>1100 Lawrence St.<br>Denver, Colo. 80204 USA<br>(303) 556-5936</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:gray'><br></span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue'><a href="jeffrey.beall@ucdenver.edu"><span style='color:blue'>jeffrey.beall@ucdenver.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><img border=0 width=325 height=48 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CD9A46.1F1C0290" alt="Description: Description: http://www.ucdenver.edu/about/departments/oiuc/brand/downloads/branddownloads/branddocuments/Logos-E-mail%20Signatures/emailSig_2campus.png"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-----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</p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.a-cubed.info/OA/"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://www.a-cubed.info/OA/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-- <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Professor Andrew A Adams <a href="mailto:aaa@meiji.ac.jp"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>aaa@meiji.ac.jp</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan <a href="http://www.a-cubed.info/"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://www.a-cubed.info/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>GOAL mailing list<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="mailto:GOAL@eprints.org"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>GOAL@eprints.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>