On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Bill Cohen wrote:
> What would an analysis be for hardcover serials of
peer-reviewed
> literature reviews, like "Annual Reviews"?
The rule is simple:
Did the author write it (1) for fee/royalty income or (2)
for
research impact?
If (1), then Green OA self-archiving cannot be madated by
the
author's institution or funder. If (2) then it can, and
should.
For Annual Reviews, the answer is (2), and Annual reviews
are
accordingly Green, endorsing author self-archiving (of the
author's final peer-reviewed draft, not the publisher's PDF)
immediately upon acceptance for publication:
h
ttp://www.annualreviews.org/authors/preprints.aspx
http://romeo.eprints.org/search.php?t=annual+reviews
Stevan Harnad
> - Bill
>
> Bill Cohen, /Publisher /
> *The Haworth Press*
> www.HaworthPress.com
> [Taylor & Francis Group]
>
> Stevan Harnad wrote:
>
>> No, neither the ERC Green OA Self-Archiving Mandate
nor the
>> NIHGreen OA Self-Archiving Mandate applies to
books. (Nor do
>> the RCUK mandates, nor the university and
departmental
>> mandates, norany of the 35 mandates adopted and the
8 proposed
>> worldwide so far: http://
>> www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php.) They all
apply only to
>> peer- reviewed journal-articles.
>>
>> Book self-archiving cannot and should not be
mandated, for the
>> contrary of much the same reasons peer-reviewed
journal
>> articles can and should be.
>>
>> Stevan Harnad
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