[Open-access] Authors' manuscripts

Wed Feb 15 10:05:58 UTC 2012

Hi

Peter, this may be interesting in the light of your message: there is a
good source of information on OA repositories in the Netherlands
 article on Dutch OA repositories
http://wowter.net/2012/02/10/a-census-of-open-access-repositories-in-the-netherlands/

I sent it it to the open access list a few days ago but you may have missed
it because there are so many emails coming in.
TOM

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> I have copied this list into a reply from Elsevier on the GOAL list. This
> gives us an important source of BOAI manuscripts
>
> When authors deposit their pre-publication manuscript under green open
> access the copyright resides with the authors not the publishers. In the
> case of the US government there is no copyright. That means that if we
> discover these manuscripts we can immediately label them as CC0.
>
> There seems to be a stock phrase which Elsevier requires to be inserted.
> This allows us to search for and verify that this manuscript is not
> Publisher copyright. It is probably part of the mechanics of author-self
> archiving in repositories. Here is an example:
>
> http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~sxs98ltb/chambersLobbButlerHarveyTraill.pdf(nothing to do with malaria)
>
> Now we cannot redistribute this but what we can do is ask repositories to
> add buttons encouraging their authors to licence their manuscripts as
> CC-BY. This would be a huge step forward.
>
> Self-deposition appears to vary between 8 and 80% in Belgium. If we can
> get the more pro-active universities to agree this concept we could make
> those institutions CC-BY. Let's think out the details and then start
> pushing the idea.
>
> P.
>
>
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