Comments on: Harvard new policy: make your scholarly articles available free online http://www.academicproductivity.com/2008/harvard-new-policy-make-your-scholarly-articles-available-free-online/ A survival guide for the 21st century researcher Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:32:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Blog personal de Enrique Rubio » Blog Archive » Iniciativas ‘Open Access’ y Productividad académica… http://www.academicproductivity.com/2008/harvard-new-policy-make-your-scholarly-articles-available-free-online/#comment-19469 Blog personal de Enrique Rubio » Blog Archive » Iniciativas ‘Open Access’ y Productividad académica… Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:06:46 +0000 http://www.academicproductivity.com/blog/2008/harvard-new-policy-make-your-scholarly-articles-available-free-online/#comment-19469 [...] raiz de la noticia de que  Harvard new policy: make your scholarly articles available free online, y en relación a la anacrónica situación actual que se produce entre las posibilidades de [...] [...] raiz de la noticia de que  Harvard new policy: make your scholarly articles available free online, y en relación a la anacrónica situación actual que se produce entre las posibilidades de [...]

]]> By: dario http://www.academicproductivity.com/2008/harvard-new-policy-make-your-scholarly-articles-available-free-online/#comment-19411 dario Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:49:29 +0000 http://www.academicproductivity.com/blog/2008/harvard-new-policy-make-your-scholarly-articles-available-free-online/#comment-19411 Lynn, the OA model is neither advocating against academic journals as the privileged vehicle of scholarly communication nor in favour of self-editing. Take a look at Peter Suber's <a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm" rel="nofollow">introduction to OA</a> for a good overview of what Open Access is about. A detailed analysis of the Harvard initiative and a comparison with former initiatives by other institutions (such as the NIH) has just been <a href="http://threader.ecs.soton.ac.uk/lists/boaiforum/1260.html" rel="nofollow">posted</a> by Stevan Harnad. Lynn, the OA model is neither advocating against academic journals as the privileged vehicle of scholarly communication nor in favour of self-editing. Take a look at Peter Suber’s introduction to OA for a good overview of what Open Access is about. A detailed analysis of the Harvard initiative and a comparison with former initiatives by other institutions (such as the NIH) has just been posted by Stevan Harnad.

]]> By: Lynn Allan Kauppi http://www.academicproductivity.com/2008/harvard-new-policy-make-your-scholarly-articles-available-free-online/#comment-19361 Lynn Allan Kauppi Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:17:44 +0000 http://www.academicproductivity.com/blog/2008/harvard-new-policy-make-your-scholarly-articles-available-free-online/#comment-19361 This is wonderful except for one caveat. As a freelance editor/copyeditor/proofreader, I'm deeply concerned that the quality of scholarly articles will suffer. Who will impose the finer points of house style that authors don't know or understand? Who will query poor grammar and word usage before the article is accessible to the wider scholarly community? Perhaps the best model is for universities to not only host the sites where the article are published, but to also employ a full-time editorial staff to oversee basic editing and production. Lynn Allan Kauppi, PhD Codex Editorial Services Antioch, Tennessee USA This is wonderful except for one caveat. As a freelance editor/copyeditor/proofreader, I’m deeply concerned that the quality of scholarly articles will suffer. Who will impose the finer points of house style that authors don’t know or understand? Who will query poor grammar and word usage before the article is accessible to the wider scholarly community?
Perhaps the best model is for universities to not only host the sites where the article are published, but to also employ a full-time editorial staff to oversee basic editing and production.

Lynn Allan Kauppi, PhD
Codex Editorial Services
Antioch, Tennessee
USA

]]> By: dario http://www.academicproductivity.com/2008/harvard-new-policy-make-your-scholarly-articles-available-free-online/#comment-19329 dario Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:47:13 +0000 http://www.academicproductivity.com/blog/2008/harvard-new-policy-make-your-scholarly-articles-available-free-online/#comment-19329 The news was covered yesterday in the <a href="http://www.soros.org/openaccess/forum.shtml" rel="nofollow">BOAI forum</a>. Harvard is certainly not an <a href="http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/" rel="nofollow">early adopter</a>, but it's good to see more big universities or research institutions join the campaign. The news was covered yesterday in the BOAI forum. Harvard is certainly not an early adopter, but it’s good to see more big universities or research institutions join the campaign.

]]> By: Jan Erik Moström / “Your papers should be available for free” http://www.academicproductivity.com/2008/harvard-new-policy-make-your-scholarly-articles-available-free-online/#comment-19319 Jan Erik Moström / “Your papers should be available for free” Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:51:14 +0000 http://www.academicproductivity.com/blog/2008/harvard-new-policy-make-your-scholarly-articles-available-free-online/#comment-19319 [...] Harward now requires their researcher to put their work online and allow free access. I think this could be really interesting if more universities make the same decision, it would [...] [...] Harward now requires their researcher to put their work online and allow free access. I think this could be really interesting if more universities make the same decision, it would [...]

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