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.nutr
itionandmetabolism.com /home )
Brian Simboli <brs4 lehigh.edu>
Sent by: owner-liblicense-llists.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: brs4lehigh.edu
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