I think you are overestimating the extent to which there is
any
centralized knowledge of what scholars in a university
actually
produce. To create such centralized knowledge, and hence
facilitate the deposit by some other entity than the author
of
the scholarly output of a faculty, would in itself be a huge
task.
>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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