<div dir="ltr"><div><div>I believe you could argue <a href="http://academia.edu">academia.edu</a> exists for this purpose. Also, many publishers have begun to include self-archiving as an explicitly permitted activity (using the pre-press, pre-edited copy only), and in my experience OUP now includes this in their contracts for journal content after an embargo period (one year).<br><br></div>That said, other publishers actively pursue legal action against their own authors who self-archive, and I've also seen contracts for periodicals that expressly prohibit it or require copyright be assigned to the publisher.<br><br></div>But I think I'll go back to lurking on the listserv now...<br><br>All best,<br>James<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 November 2014 at 10:50, Roy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roy@mantex.co.uk" target="_blank">roy@mantex.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> In the Open Access debate, I am surprised that there doesn't seem to be more awareness of the solution to these problems of academic publishing proposed by Steven Harnad almost twenty years ago. He argues very persuasively that academics should simply self-archive their research on line. The basics of these proposals (and the demolition of objections to them) are reviewed here: <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> <a href="http://www.mantex.co.uk/2009/07/13/scholarly-journals-at-the-crossroads/" target="_blank">http://www.mantex.co.uk/2009/07/13/scholarly-journals-at-the-crossroads/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> Further arguments in favour of electronic publishing were advanced only a few years later, and are reviewed here:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> <a href="http://www.mantex.co.uk/2009/07/20/towards-electronic-journals/" target="_blank">http://www.mantex.co.uk/2009/07/20/towards-electronic-journals/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> And for a ground level view of some of the basic Open Source Research issues, see here:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> <a href="http://www.mantex.co.uk/2010/09/05/open-source-research/" target="_blank">http://www.mantex.co.uk/2010/09/05/open-source-research/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Dr Roy Johnson<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.mantex.co.uk" target="_blank">www.mantex.co.uk</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div>
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