[open-bibliography] [GOAL] Re: Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 6

[Arif Jinha]

What you should if feel free to apply the permissions as expressed by the author, not by the licence, because only the author's will is enforceable in natural law.  If your libraries disagree, persuade them otherwise instead of browbeating authors and progressive people like Creative Commons.

What you can also do is bring legal cases all they way to Supreme Courts whenever someone (a profit-hungry TA publisher for instance, or a power-hungry government) comes after anyone who acts in fair use.  It is wrong particularly that disabled people and people who basically know better can be denied this scholarly information on a technicality such as NC's imperfection, or worse criminalized, civilly injured by lawsuit, or fired, let go, for using or publishing it etc.  You are making a very risk-averse decision in insisting that everyone license everything perfectly, and it is that decision that is largely responsible for stopping the flow of information.  So why is it unusable, we are all cowering fear before an emperor who has no clothes.

There is nothing impossible about NC being fully exploited for its purpose, in fact it is one of the most natural ways to permit use and totally legal. Even better than CC-NC would be express an author statement of NC = no copyright!! Attribute and don't plagiarise as per normal practise (and it goes on all the time particularly profs taking the ideas of students, in ways profs aren't even being honest about).  It goes without saying and without licensing, it is a code of honour and reputation in the end.

Remember who started GOAL - global open access library as a concept for a global open access search.  We did so years ago and received very little support.  We were working as students and developing country advocates.  Arif Jinha and Moustapha Diack started the GOAL community years ago but it went nowhere. No problem for us in using the acronmy, no copyright, I am happy about it, and just waiting for some common sense from the dinosaur class.  I'm really respectful of my profs actually, and only saying that because it seems to be the tone on the list for getting some attention.  We are delighted that the acronym stuck in your subconscious.

 If you think about it, you'll stop forgetting the forest for the trees and bullying each other on this list.  You'll defend your allies. If you do that, you'll protect the innocent and take a heuristic all the way to copyright deregulation, which is already de facto for most journals who permit self-archiving and in the best interests of all scholarly publications as well as the disabled, students, professors and the poor.

Sincerly my salutution must be creative.

"Inextenguishable eastern and western, northern and southern enlightenment in the global rising spring", some poetry from the humanities on a cog-sci heavy list.  We shall overcome and we shall have all the literature on our desktop, free for all, forever, in our lifetime, mark my words.  In many ways, we already have it with a little bit of fully legal and technical cleverness from the young wizkids who know digital law and the internet.. 

Why not help me start my Open Creative Publishing Platform for creative arts and scholarship?  Why not drop me a friendly note for the effort I'm making as a penniless MA graduate?

take care good friends and allies in OA.

Arif Jinha
JBC Publishing (to be registered 2012)
Wakefield, QC
011-819-459-1385
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Peter Murray-Rust 
  To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) ; List for Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 4:45 AM
  Subject: [GOAL] Re: Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography,Version 6


  Thanks Charles,
   We are currently working on an Open Biblio project (funded by JISC) and aimed at developing an Open bibliographic infrastructure (BibSoup, Bibserver and BibJSON)

  But we cannot include your bibliography because it is NC

  WHY is it NC? It makes it impossible to re-use it - provenance is hard enough to track let alone rights.

  There is no justification for NC. It solves nothing and makes it impossible for modern re-use. You couldn't use any of this in a conventional book, for example.

  And, more generally, there is no justification for NC in "Open Access". The assertion that authors want it is unfounded in fact. I am an author and I have never found an Open Access supporter who has advocated NC. It's a myth. It has severely restricted the re-use of information from projects such as GalaxyZoo. 

  Let's work to get rid of NC


  On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:48 AM, Charles W. Bailey, Jr. <cwbailey at digital-scholarship.com> wrote:

    Digital Scholarship has released the Electronic Theses and
    Dissertations Bibliography, Version 6.  It includes selected
    English-language articles, books, conference papers,
    technical reports, unpublished e-prints, and other scholarly
    textual sources that are useful in understanding electronic
    theses and dissertations.  Most sources have been published
    from 2000 through 2011; however, a limited number of earlier
    key sources are also included.  The bibliography includes
    links to freely available versions of included works. It is
    available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial
    3.0 United States License.

    http://digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm


    Other Digital Scholarship Open Access Publications

    Digital/Print Books, http://bit.ly/ruSeJT

    Digital Bibliographies, http://bit.ly/oLLBeZ

    Weblogs, http://bit.ly/r16OuF

    --

    Best Regards,
    Charles

    Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
    Publisher, Digital Scholarship
    http://bit.ly/Z6HFx

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