In an InetBib posting, Klaus Graf asks (in German) which edition of their work scholars should archive when they don't have permission to deposit the publisher's PDF. Would it be too much work to ask scholars to add the final pagination to any edition they archive? What about making a two-layered PDF, with an image of the published text on the top layer and an OCR version of the text underneath for search engines to index? Will repositories even accept such two-layered PDF's? Do the best answers to these questions vary from discipline to discipline? Also see Graf's wiki contribution (in English) on these questions.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/31/2005 10:04:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
