We have been discussing Les Carr's�message further within the SHERPA Core
Team and concluded that he has a valid�point. Consequently, we will be
changing our recommendations in the OpenDOAR Policy Tool for the
harvesting of full items by robots. These policy options will remain,�BUT
they will no longer be either minimal or optimal OpenDOAR-recommended
options.
�
We expect to releaser the amended�the Policy Tool by the end of the�week.
�
Regards
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Peter Millington
SHERPA Technical Development Officer
Greenfield Medical�Library, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
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Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, England
Phone: +44 (0)115 84 68481
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From: Leslie Carr [mailto:lac_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk]
Sent: 12 June 2007 16:26
To: American Scientist Open Access Forum
Cc: Millington Peter
Subject: Re: Get the Institutional Repository Managers Out of the
Decision Loop
Peter Murray-Rust [PM-R] replied:
"Stevan Harnad... has been consistent in
arguing the logic [of what comes with the
OA territory]... and I agree with the
logic... [but]... several repository
managers at the JISC meeting [said] I could
not have permission to do [such things]
with their current content. I asked 'can my
robots download and mine the content in
your current open access repository of
theses?' - No. 'Can you let me have some
chemistry theses from your open access
collection so I can data-mine them?' - No -
you will have to ask the permission of each
author individually.
The OpenDOAR repository policies tool tends to act towards
over-cautiousness in the policies that they suggest for data and
document reuse.
The current policies that they produce have options to explicitly
allow services� that do full text indexing and citation analysis,
BUT THAT IS ALL.
By enumerating the potential allowable services they are
effectively stifling innovation and research, and that is a BAD
thing. The last thing that OA advocates ought to do is build up
ANOTHER rights-withholding infrastructure.
I do hope that this a a short-sighted transition phenomenon, but it
should certainly be addressed now (and strongly).
--
Les Carr
Received on Thu Jun 14 2007 - 12:16:45 BST