Re: Green gold?

[David Goodman <dgoodman@Princeton.EDU>]

More precisely,

As for PubMed, PubMed entries do carry a link to the OA version 
on PMC, and it is just as well hidden as the link to the 
publisher's version. Upon getting the list, the far right column 
has a link called "Links', which shows both PMC and the 
publishers' site(s).

What PubMed does not seem to have, and certainly should have, is 
a link to GreenOA author copies that may be elsewhere on the web; 
I am informed that there is yet a reliable and comprehensive 
single search engine to find them all.

As for citations, they certainly should include links to any OA 
versions that the author knows about. Authors may not know, for 
they may have read the Publisher's version; it would be highly 
desirable if the authors, especially if publishing OA themself, 
were to check all of their references for OA, just a they would 
check any OA urls for possible Publisher's versions.

First, as for PubMed, PubMed entries do carry a link to the OA 
version on PMC, and it is just as well hidden as the link to the 
publisher's version. Upon getting the list, the far right column 
has a link called "Links', which shows both PMC and the 
publishers' site(s).

What they do not seem to have, and certainly should have, is a 
link to GreenOA author copies that may be elsewhere on the web. I 
do not think there is yet a reliable and comprehensive single 
search engine to find them all..

Second, as for citations, yes they certainly should include links 
to any OA versions that the author knows about. The author may 
well not know, for me may have read the Publisher's version; it 
would be highly desirable if the author, especially if publishing 
OA himself, were to check all of his references for OA, just a we 
would check any OA urls for possible Publisher's versions.

Publishers should be willing to include such links in their 
versions.  I'd think a reader would first try the link to the 
better-copyedited and more readable publisher's version. If use 
studies and web log analysis were to show otherwise, they might 
indicate what it is that needs to change.

Dr. David Goodman
Associate Professor
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Long Island University
and formerly
Princeton University Library

dgoodman@liu.edu
dgoodman@princeton.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Feinman <RFeinman@downstate.edu>
Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 6:36 pm
Subject: Green gold?
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu

> The barrier to self-archiving is not inertia.  It is the 
> perception that once archived, nobody will know where to find 
> the paper.  On the other hand, if it were standard practice to 
> include the address of the self-archived paper in the PubMed 
> citation or if the URL were part of the format for references 
> in journal articles, this might be a good thing, no? Some 
> journals do include this but I have never attended to whether 
> and under what conditions journals do this.  It seems, also, 
> that authors who had commitment to the overall problem of 
> access might choose to publish in journals that had the policy 
> of including this information in their reference format.  That 
> way, people would have real access to the authors self-archived 
> form and could decide if they needed a valude-added version.
>
> Richard D. Feinman, Co-editor-in-chief
>
> Nutrition & Metabolism ( http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com
> /home )
>
> Brian Simboli <brs4@lehigh.edu>
> Sent by: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> 07/18/06 07:11 PM
>
> (cross-posted)
>
> A question that I posed to another listserv, but that might be
> germane to soaf and liblicense.
>
> Is there is an OA movement, akin to the "green rights movement"
> with respect to journals, to beseech publishers to allow authors
> to post a copy of their monographs on the web?  If not, why
> hasn't this been an emphasis?
>
> The difference here would be that green rights are rights to
> self-archive some version of already publisher-published ejournal
> articles, whereas this would be a case of authors gaining rights
> to publish electronically monographs that are sometimes available
> from the publisher only in paper and sometimes also
> electronically available.
>
> Brian Simboli
> Science Librarian
> Library & Technology Services
> E.W. Fairchild Martindale
> Lehigh University
> Bethlehem, PA 18015-3170
> E-mail: brs4@lehigh.edu