<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Beall, Jeffrey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Jeffrey.Beall@ucdenver.edu" target="_blank">Jeffrey.Beall@ucdenver.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p>I found the advice given in this "explanation" to be cavalier. The document says,</p><p style="margin-left:.5in">AAA: "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closed instead of open (never remove a paper from the IR, just set its access as closed, unless the paper is formally withdrawn by the journal for academic misconduct)."</p>
<p>Professor Adams, is this the type of practice you teach your students in your business ethics classes?</p><p>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.</p>
<p>I would encourage people to reject Professor Adams' insolent <a href="http://www.a-cubed.info/OA/" target="_blank">advice</a>.</p></div></blockquote>(1) I would encourage Professor Beall to reserve the word "insolent" for private, personal contexts. Please keep public postings impersonal and temperate.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">(2) I would like to suggest that if the authors of the c. 800,000 papers they have been self-archived in <a href="http://arxiv.org/show_monthly_submissions">Arxiv</a> since 1991 had made the mistake of following the advice of Professor Beall, instead of the advice of Professor Adams, then Physics would have lost a goodly chunk of Open Access (OA) and Research impact for the last 2 decades.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">There are at least 38 profound misconceptions that have been retarding the progress of OA worldwide for the past 2 decades. Professor Beall apparently champions (at least) one of the most groundless and deleterious of them.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Professor Adams's advice is spot-on. If you're not convinced, deposit immediately, set access to "closed," and let the repository's semi-automated <a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/268511/">"email-eptint-request" Button</a> provide "Almost-OA" until you update to where the physicists (and computer scientists, and close to 20% of the authors in most other disciplines) have been since 1991...</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Stevan Harnad<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<p> <u></u><u></u></p><p><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#262626">Jeffrey Beall, MA, MSLS, Associate Professor<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p><u></u> <u></u></p><p><u></u> <u></u></p><p>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org" target="_blank">goal-bounces@eprints.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org" target="_blank">goal-bounces@eprints.org</a>] 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><u></u> <u></u></p><p><u></u> <u></u></p><p>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.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u> <u></u></p><p><a href="http://www.a-cubed.info/OA/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://www.a-cubed.info/OA/</span></a><u></u><u></u></p><p><u></u> <u></u></p><p>-- <u></u><u></u></p>
<p>Professor Andrew A Adams <a href="mailto:aaa@meiji.ac.jp" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">aaa@meiji.ac.jp</span></a><u></u><u></u></p><p>Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics<u></u><u></u></p>
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