Re: Guide juridique CNRS

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The CNRS Guide is an excellent, well-documented, well-written, well-thought-out guide to the legal aspects of self-archiving. I strongly urge that it be translated also into English and adapted for use by other institutions.

    http://publicnrs.inist.fr/IMG/pdf/guide_bis_juridique_publiCNRS.pdf

The only point I would suggest revising is point 4. (The optimal default policy is to self-archive in all cases, and to consider publisher removal-requests, if/when received, on a case-by-case basis. This is simpler than explicitly negotiating self-archiving rights in advance.)

Especially useful in the CNRS guide is the following passage (highly pertinent to the support of the already over-cautious RCUK proposed policy):

    "Nous vous rappelons que vous détenez toujours le droit de déposer une     notice bibliographique dans HAL, complétée du numéro DOI du document,     et de déposer le plein texte d'un document en mode caché."

(You can *always* deposit the metadata plus text, with the metadata set to Open Access [OA] and the full-text set to institution-internal [IA] access. Then of course those would-be users webwide who try to access the full text on the basis of the metadata [author, title, joutnal, date, abstract, etc.] and hit an "IA" barrier can simply email the author for a copy of the eprint.)

    http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/20-guid.html     http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/berlin3-harnad.ppt

It would also be more useful if, in addition to linking the Romeo/SHERPA directory of publishers' self-archiving policies (which indexes the policies in terms of the 126 publishers registered to date), the CNRS guide also linked the Romeo/Eprints version of this directory (which indexes the policies in terms of the 8630 individual journals registered to date): http://romeo.eprints.org/

Stevan Harnad

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Minh Ha Duong wrote:

> Hello/Bonjour,
>
> Le CNRS a préparé un Guide pratique des aspects juridiques liés au dépôt des
> publications. Les internautes sont invités à faire part de leurs observations
> sur le projet de texte que vous trouverez à: http://publicnrs.inist.fr/
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