Re: European Research Council Mandate Green OA Self-Archiving

[Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

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: 
http://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