RE: Darnton on the Google settlement

[Sandy Thatcher <sgt3@psu.edu>]

I don't doubt you're right, David, but Green OA papers are, by
definition, not copyedited, dissertations never are, and I'm sure
there are any number of OA journals that do little or no copyediting.
If my assumption is right, based on the evidence I have, then a lot
of research is being shared with plenty of mistakes in it, which as
one study showed with respect to citations and quotations simply get
repeated ad nauseum because scholars rarely go back to check the
original sources.


>If the contents of local IRs were only available locally then Jan may just
>be right.  But we have the internet now.  Local content is available
>internationally.  And if it is open it can be federated and re-used and
>re-purposed.  The local OAI-compliant IR is, in many cases, less 'atomistic'
>than many international journals with limited circulation.
>
>We are seeing the effects of this, anecdotally, with the offers of
>international collaboration to researchers who have depositing their papers
>locally, the students offered international post-graduate positions after
>depositing their theses, etc.  Open access through IRs has the potential to
>make research more international, more collaborative, not less.
>
>David
>
>David Prosser
>Director, SPARC Europe
>