<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000">Thank you for responding Promita.<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000">Forgive me for concluding that bepress produced this document to promote
itself and its Digital Commons product, and thus ultimately to sell more
product, rather than to help the OA community. <span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000">But let me explain why I feel it would have helped to cast the net
wider. Digital Commons is not a typical institutional repository solution. As bepress’
Jean-Gabriel Bankier put it to me when I interviewed him in 2014, “Digital
Commons is an integrated platform to support the full spectrum of scholarly
publishing and institutional repository needs. Imagine ContentDM, DSpace,
Dryad, Figshare, ePrints, Open Journal Systems, Open Monograph Press, and Open
Conference Systems all rolled into one solution, and you have the Digital
Commons platform.”<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000">Indeed, I believe that bepress began life as a journal publisher, and
that Digital Commons was developed as its publishing platform, not as an
institutional repository solution. For this reason, at least until recently,
Digital Common has been promoted primarily as a tool for library-led publishing,
not for IRs. <span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000">Given this, we might wonder whether the uses that institutions are
making of Digital Commons is typical (certainly so far as open access is
concerned), and we might therefore wonder how representative the stories in the
document are of open access and its impact. <span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000">As you will know, BOAI defined the target content of open access as being
“peer-reviewed journal articles” and “unreviewed preprints”. I note that in footnote 1 of the document (citing
one of the interviews I conducted with a user of Digital Commons) open access
is redefined. I also note the document states that of the stories in it only 21%
relate to research. Of course, it is great that Digital Commons is being used
to host patents, yearbooks, institutional documents, oral history, and creative
works, but that is not content the open access movement was created to
make free. <span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000">So, my concern is that this document is about how a publishing platform
that later had institutional repository functionality added to it is being used,
not how institutional repositories <i>per se</i>
are being used, or the kind of impact that OA is having. It may well be that similar stories would have emerged if the
net had been cast wider, but we couldn’t know that unless or until a wider
survey were undertaken. My wish is that the net had been cast wider. <span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000">That it was not cast wider is why I concluded (incorrectly apparently) that the document
is focused more on promoting bepress’ Digital Commons product than on assisting
the OA movement forward.<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000">All that said, good luck with your project.<span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000">Richard</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000">PS: </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">One reason for my scepticism, by the way, was that when bepress sold its OA journals they appear to have been put back behind a paywall: </span><a href="https://svpow.com/2014/10/29/cc-by-documents-cannot-be-re-enclosed-if-their-publisher-is-acquired/#comment-90222">https://svpow.com/2014/10/29/cc-by-documents-cannot-be-re-enclosed-if-their-publisher-is-acquired/#comment-90222</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-size:large;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-size:large"><span> </span></p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 October 2016 at 00:03, Promita Chatterji <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pchatterji@bepress.com" target="_blank"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline"></div>p<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline"></div>chatterji@bepress.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-m_-8787628561129968821gmail-docs-internal-guid-8c2ef919-0d86-85c4-560c-6901927a7ae3"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hi Richard - </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-m_-8787628561129968821gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thanks for your message. </span></p><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We did this work because people were really hungry for stories around open access impact, and we knew we had a significant volume of relevant data. We work in partnership with hundreds of institutions on their open access initiatives and see first-hand the impacts of their efforts. While the report draws on bepress data, the framework and the stories themselves highlight the accomplishments of institutions and their librarians that have advanced open access. We believe they deserve to be recognized for it. </span></p><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We enjoy working with UNESCO and very much value their work on open access: they have a broad and inclusive perspective that serves to move the community forward. We’ve been getting a lot of positive feedback on the pre-print of the report and we hope that it inspires other institutions and platforms to follow suit. The community would only be helped by having additional stories of open access impact. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Best,</span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Promita</span></font></p><div><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Richard Poynder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard.poynder@gmail.com" target="_blank">richard.poynder@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000">Thanks for posting this Promita Chatterji. <span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><br></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000">Would it be accurate to say that this is, in effect, a
document promoting bepress' commercial repository platform Digital Commons that
UNESCO will publish and distribute?<span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><br></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000">Best wishes,<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000">Richard</font><font size="4" style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><span></span></font></p></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="gmail-m_-8787628561129968821gmail-h5">On 28 October 2016 at 15:21, Promita Chatterji <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pchatterji@bepress.com" target="_blank">pchatterji@bepress.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="gmail-m_-8787628561129968821gmail-h5"><div dir="ltr"><div>Happy Open Access Week!<br><br>To end the week, we are excited to share <a href="https://works.bepress.com/jean_gabriel_bankier/27/" target="_blank">100 stories and a framework for describing the impact of open access</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>We look forward to hearing your stories of open access success.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Promita Chatterji</div><span class="gmail-m_-8787628561129968821gmail-m_-6466088112333466653HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail-m_-8787628561129968821gmail-m_-6466088112333466653m_-6274726784316846267m_-2431972298204354363gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Promita Chatterji</div><div dir="ltr">bepress<div><a value="+15106651200" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">510-665-1200 x</a>141</div><div><a href="http://www.bepress.com" target="_blank">http://www.bepress.com</a></div><div><br>bepress: the frontier of scholarly publishing since 1999<br></div><div><br></div><div>Check out IR success stories on the DC Telegraph at <a href="http://blog.digitalcommons.bepress.com" target="_blank">http://blog.digitalcommons.bep<wbr>ress.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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