Green gold?

[Richard Feinman <RFeinman@downstate.edu>]

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.nutritionandmetabolism.com  /home )

Brian Simboli <brs4@lehigh.edu>
Sent by: owner-liblicense-l@lists.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: brs4@lehigh.edu