<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 10:24 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brentier@ulg.ac.be" target="_blank">brentier@ulg.ac.be</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="auto"><div>Good evening,</div><div id="gmail-m_-3543597304353093619AppleMailSignature"><br></div></div></blockquote><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 dir="auto">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.<div id="gmail-m_-3543597304353093619AppleMailSignature"><br></div></div></blockquote><div>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. <br><br></div>Liege is one of the leading repositories. To be effective in changing the access to science (I concentrate on STM material) a repository must:<br><br></div>* provide full text of the manuscript. (metadata is of little value to most scientists)<br></div>* support and encourage unlimited machine download and search<br></div>* remove any barriers such as having to mail authors, contact libraries, ask for permissions, read licences, etc.<br></div>* ideally not have an embargo.<br></div>* actively support scientists/scholars wishing to download repository content.<br><br></div>If all repositories did this - and it's technically possible - then we might change the face of scholarly publishing.<br><br></div>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.<br><br></div>The original point of repositories - 15+ years ago - was to make scholarship freely and universally available. <br><br></div>How close are Liege and others to providing full free frictionless access to all deposited full text?<br><br></div>P.<br><br><div><div><div><div><div><div><br><div><div><div><div><div><div><br><br></div><div><br>In the UK <br></div><div>If ever institution<br></div><div> </div><div id="gmail-m_-3543597304353093619AppleMailSignature">Best regards,</div><div id="gmail-m_-3543597304353093619AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="gmail-m_-3543597304353093619AppleMailSignature">Bernard Rentier, Liège.</div><div id="gmail-m_-3543597304353093619AppleMailSignature"><br></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Peter Murray-Rust<br>Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dept. Of Chemistry<br>University of Cambridge<br>CB2 1EW, UK<br>+44-1223-763069</div></div></div>
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