Dear Sandy
I stated earlier that authors can not be made responsible
for any
post-manuscript writing activities. Publishing is a
different
sort of activity, so is its dissemination. If authors are
supposed to do the librarian's job or that of the university
press, then there is no need of the existence of these
institutions. Self-archiving anyway does not mean that
authors
themselves have to deposit their publications in IR and in a
"legally mandated" environment "ideally"
there should be an
office responsible for this activity. This could be
university
registrar, librarian, office of scholarly communications or
something else. But in a university, the numbers of
potential
authors could range from few hundreds to several thousands
and it
is the only these offices which will have exact details of
the
activities of the authors in a university. The notion that
authors will deposit their publication by their own hand
stems
from an activist's effort of OA populisation, not from the
realization of how universities work in a large framework of
interconnected departments and offices.
Atanu Garai
Globethics.net
From: Sandy Thatcher
Subject: Re: Publish-or-Perish Mandates and Self-Archiving
Mandates
> What surprises me here is that there is only 95%
compliance.
> For any mandatory ETD program like the one that exists
at Penn
> State now (http://www.etd.psu.edu), a
graduate student cannot
> graduate without depositing the thesis in electronic
form. One
> wonders why there is less than 100% compliance under
these
> circumstances.
>
> This kind of mandatory policy, of course, has teeth
that others
> do not. What is the penalty for a faculty member who
ignores a
> university policy to deposit research papers in the
> university's IR?
>
> Until "mandatory" means something more than
"strongly suggest"
> and has serious consequences for noncompliance, I
suspect that
> the uptake will fall far short of Stevan's ideal Green
OA
> world.
>
> Sandy Thatcher
> Penn State Press
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