The CNRS Guide is an excellent, well-documented, well-written,
well-thought-out guide to the legal aspects of self-archiving. I strongly
urge that it be translated also into English and adapted for use by
other institutions.
http://publicnrs.inist.fr/IMG/pdf/guide_bis_juridique_publiCNRS.pdf
The only point I would suggest revising is point 4. (The optimal default
policy is to self-archive in all cases, and to consider publisher
removal-requests, if/when received, on a case-by-case basis. This is
simpler than explicitly negotiating self-archiving rights in advance.)
Especially useful in the CNRS guide is the following passage (highly
pertinent to the support of the already over-cautious RCUK proposed
policy):
"Nous vous rappelons que vous d�tenez toujours le droit de d�poser une
notice bibliographique dans HAL, compl�t�e du num�ro DOI du document,
et de d�poser le plein texte d'un document en mode cach�."
(You can *always* deposit the metadata plus text, with the metadata set
to Open Access [OA] and the full-text set to institution-internal [IA]
access. Then of course those would-be users webwide who try to access
the full text on the basis of the metadata [author, title, joutnal, date,
abstract, etc.] and hit an "IA" barrier can simply email the author for
a copy of the eprint.)
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/20-guid.html
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/berlin3-harnad.ppt
It would also be more useful if, in addition to linking the Romeo/SHERPA
directory of publishers' self-archiving policies (which indexes the
policies in terms of the 126 publishers registered to date), the CNRS
guide also linked the Romeo/Eprints version of this directory (which
indexes the policies in terms of the 8630 individual journals registered
to date):
http://romeo.eprints.org/
Stevan Harnad
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Minh Ha Duong wrote:
> Hello/Bonjour,
>
> Le CNRS a pr�par� un Guide pratique des aspects juridiques li�s au d�p�t des
> publications. Les internautes sont invit�s � faire part de leurs observations
> sur le projet de texte que vous trouverez �: http://publicnrs.inist.fr/
>
> Minh
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