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So the postprint says to the preprint, why so blue?

Tweet And the preprint says, ahhh…Miles Davis…. Blue in Green. Stevan Harnad has issued a polite request to SHERPA/RoMEO to update their color scheme.  Stevan’s logic speaks for itself.   Here he is on another occasion, making important points about green open access:    

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Mon, August 15 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Comparative Post-print green policies: Look no further than RoMEO

Tweet I was looking at the announcement of Palgrave Macmillan open access options and started to build a table to compare publisher post-print deposit rules: Post-Print Green Open Access Policies June 21st, 2011 Publisher Policy Source of Documentation Palgrave Macmillan Journals Upload to institutional repositories; public availability of post-print is delayed until 18 months after [...]

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Thu, June 23 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments

The UK and USA OA vanguard: SHERPA, RoMEO, ARL, SPARC

Tweet The United Kingdom’s  SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access) is based at the Centre for Research Communications, University of Nottingham and works on projects related to open Access and repository development. Think of SHERPA as a British equivalent of  ARL’s (Association of Research Libraries) SPARC (Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources [...]

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Sun, June 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments