Re: open access publishing, harvard and beyond

Alex Reid — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:09:39 -0000

Anne-Marie, thanks so much for pointing me to the SPARC resource and the information on what SUNY is doing. SUNY's such a huge entity, it's hard to keep track of what's going on.

Re: open access publishing, harvard and beyond

Anne-Marie — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:00:35 -0000

Hi - I hope you don't mind a stranger jumping in. I've been watching the discussions about the events at Harvard with a lot of interest - mainly because so many of them seem to turn almost immediately to questions of peer review. I really like your concluding section - the idea that revising and reviewing can happen in a lot of ways that that those ways are not mutually exclusive is one that has a lot of resonance for me.
A couple things jumped to mind reading your questions. You might be interested in the SPARC Author's Rights project - there are a lot of journals now that leave pre-print publication rights with the author in some form - and more that will do so if an author asks for that. SPARC has put together a lot of information on how to maintain those rights. I'm so immersed in this kind of project as a librarian that I was surprised how many people immediately thought that the Harvard faculty were agreeing to use their university repository instead of publishing in journals. Quite a wake-up call. The other thing I wondered was whether librarians at SUNY were already working on this kind of repository -- it looks like they are, but that the project doesn't have a lot of traction yet in the area of archiving scholarly research.
Wow - for a newcomer I sure took up a lot of space. Thanks again for this post. It was apparently what I needed to take the 10 minutes to upload my last article to our Scholar's Archive.

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