Dear Klaus Graf,
I think this debate is useless. I read your lengthy comment and
ultimately your point is that the Li�ge Mandate does not go beyond
the well known fair use clause. I think you are right; the Li�ge
Mandate is converting 'fair use' into 'smart use'. It is a
non-confronting endeavour to bypass the proprietary review process of
the big publishing houses. Why calling it nonsense? It is just one
way to better access to knowledge and Stevan Harnad and Bernard
Rentier are strong believers in it. So, please Klaus Graf, what's
your point?
Leo Waaijers.
Stevan Harnad wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 10:08:30 -0500
From: Bernard Rentier <brentier_at_ULG.AC.BE>
To:
AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
Subject: The Liege IR Mandate is definitely IDOA/DDR
��� (Immediate-Deposit/Optional-Access -- Dual
Deposit/Release)
Yesterday, Klaus Graf reacted rather strongly to the
announcement of the
Li�ge University repository mandate, stating t[in the
American Scientist
Open Access Forum] that its "practice and legal framework
is nonsense."
���
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5420548/
���
http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/sc/wa.exe?A2=ind09&L=american-scientist-open-a
ccess-forum&D=1&O=D&F=l&S=&P=339
It seems to me that perhaps he may have missed a few
essential aspects
of this mandate, essentially the way it is handled in
practice, the
legal wherewithal and the reasons for imposing it.
Below is the English translation of the message I have
sent to the whole
University Community on November 26, 2008. I believe
that, rather than
a lengthy explanation of how the Li�ge mandate works,
this message tells
it all much better.
It may perhaps be useful as well for those who wish to
find a way to
obtain compliance with their universities.� It
demonstrates also
that the Li�ge Mandate is indeed IDOA/DDR
(Immediate-Deposit/Optional-
Access -- Dual Deposit/Release), to use the latest
definitions coined in
this forum.
Happy New Year to all !
Bernard Rentier
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��� Madame, Monsieur, Cher(e) Coll�gue,
��� The increase in international visibility of the ULg
[Universit�
��� de Li�ge] and its researchers, mainly through their
publications,
��� as well as the support for the� worldwide�
development of an open
��� and free access to scientific works (Open Access) are
two essential
��� objectives at the heart of my action, as you probably
know.
��� At my request, the Institutional Repository "ORBi"
(Open Repository &
��� Bibliography;
http://orbi.ulg.ac.be ) has been set up
at the ULg by
��� the Libraries Network to meet these objectives.
��� [1] The experimental encoding phase based on
volunteerism being now
��� successfully completed, we can step forward and enter
the "production
��� phase" this Wednesday November 26th, 2008. I take
this opportunity
��� to thank all the professors and researchers who have
already filed
��� in ORBi hundreds of their references, 70% of them
with the full
��� text. Thanks to their patience, ORBi's fine tuning
could be achieved.
��� From today onward, it is incumbent upon each ULg
member to feed ORBi
��� with his/her own references. In this respect, the
Administrative
��� Board of the University has decided to make it
mandatory for all
��� ULg members:
������� - to deposit the bibliographic references of ALL
their
������� publications since 2002;
������� - to deposit the full text of ALL their articles
published in
������� periodicals since 2002.
������� Access to these full texts will only be granted
with the author's
������� consent and according to the rules applicable to
author's rights
������� and copyrights. The University is indeed very
keen on respecting
������� the rights of all stakeholders.
��� [2] For future publications, deposit in ORBi will be
mandatory as
��� soon as the article is accepted by the editor.
��� [3] I wish to remind you that, as announced a year in
March 2007,
��� starting October 1st, 2009 *only those references
introduced in ORBi
��� will be taken into consideration as the official list
of publications
��� accompanying any curriculum vit� in all evaluation
procedures 'in
��� house' (designations, promotions, grant applications,
etc.).*
��� Information seminars have been planned during the
next months
��� to allow every one of you to make the tool your own
thing (see
���
http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/news?id=06). Help is also
accessible on line;
��� such as the simplified user's guide (also available
as a leaflet)
��� and the Depositor's Guide.
��� The development of ORBi offers multiple advantages
not only to the
��� Institution, but also to the researchers and their
teams, such as:
������� - a considerable speeding up of the dissemination
and visibility
������� of the scientific works (as soon as publication
approval is
������� granted;
������� - a considerable increase in visibility for the
published works
������� through referencing in the main search engines
(Googlescholar,
������� OAI metaengines, etc.);
������� - centralised and perennial conservation of
publications allowing
������� multiple exploitation possibilities (integration
in personal
������� web pages, in institutional web pages, export of
reference lists
������� towards other applications and to funding
organisations such as
������� the Belgian National Fund for Scientific
Research); - etc.
��� I hope that, despite the time you are going to devote
to this
��� somewhat tedious task, you will soon realise the
benefits of this
��� institutional policy.
��� With many thanks,
��� Bernard Rentier
��� Rector
��� University of Liege
��� 7, place du 20 Aout
��� 4000 Liege, Belgium
��� Tel: +32-4-366 9700
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