Re: Green gold?

["Sally Morris \(ALPSP\)" <sally.morris@alpsp.org>]

When we asked librarians about the impact of repositories on 
their subscriptions 
(http://www.alpsp.org/publications/pub12.htm), one of the 
interesting points was that 61% were unable to identify what 
journal content was also freely available online in repositories, 
and 69% have no plans to put in place any system that would 
enable them to do that

Sally

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Email:  sally.morris@alpsp.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Feinman" <RFeinman@downstate.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 10:53 PM
Subject: Green gold?

> 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
> Lehigh University