[Open-access] Authors' manuscripts

Wed Feb 15 13:38:06 UTC 2012

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Mike Taylor <mike at indexdata.com> wrote:

> This is a new an terrifying wrinkle.  If generally true, it seems to
> punch a huge hole through Green OA.
>
>
Mike,
The hole has been there for years. Green OA guarantees only that somewhere
on the web by some unspecified mechanism a human can get photons from the
article. There is no right to download (Pubmed forbids anything other than
reading). there is no right to re-use.

Stevan Harnad is very happy with this state of affairs. If all articles
have "his" Green Open Access. I disagree but there is no meeting of minds.
Since Green OA means acquiescing to publishers rather than fighting for our
rights it's the easy way for universities to go.

I am conscious that if I deliver too many shocks to your system you might
have a seizure but be aware that almost nothing in Institutional Reposities
is BOAI-compliant. Most is unlabelled. Much is Green OA

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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