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Re: RFS: eprints
it would probably be better to ask this sort of question on the SIGMETRICS mailing list, or on one of the others - Steven Harnad and other open-access types are quite readily available over there. 

Subscription information is here:

http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html
I would *strongly* advise lurking a bit to figure out how the list works and how the area functions - as well as what the 'state of the art' is - before posting. The list is full of bright but busy folks.
AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM would be another good place for you to lurk-then-post-questions.
[n.b. - I am quite familiar with the problem you pose; this is a pretty common IS/LIS topic. Self-archiving or preprint archiving is a pretty straightforward way around the fracas that is publisher contracts. I would strongly suggest not attempting to redistribute things that come FROM a publisher, however - if anything, go back to the source author and get the last possible draft before what they submitted to the publisher. This was something Rob Kling was promoting among his students before he passed on; it works nicely. There's also the option of writing addenda into contracts that publishers send to authors; this also works nicely in softening the tone of the licenses publishers attempt to force on folks.] 

--elijah


On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, dfp10@logical.net wrote:


Date: Tue,  4 Sep 2007 16:06:05 -0400
From: dfp10@logical.net
To: elw@stderr.org
Cc: David C Tarrant <dct05r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, debian-science@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: RFS: eprints
Resent-Date: Tue,  4 Sep 2007 20:30:26 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-science@lists.debian.org

Hello!
How are you dealing with the copyright problems of wide distribution of reprints? I am trying to get more info about this for my institution (Wadsworth Center, NY State Dept of Health, Albany, NY USA) There appear to be limitations to redistributing imposed by the publisher's contracts for e-journal subscriptions to our Library. What is your experience? 
        Here are some statements I found on the Web.
 1. From http://www.agu.org/pubs/copyright.html
Usage Permissions Permission is granted for individuals to make single copies for personal use in research, study, or teaching and to use figures, tables, and short quotes from the journal for republication in scientific books and journals. This permission does not extend to posting a copy of the PDF or HTML created by AGU for publication. There is no charge for any of these uses, ut the material must be cited appropriately. Rights Granted to Authors AGU?s philosophy recognizes the need to ensure that authors have a say in how their works are used and the necessity to foster broad dissemination of scientific literature while protecting the viability of the publication system. The following nonexclusive rights are granted to AGU authors: 
?	All proprietary rights other than copyright (such as patent rights)
?	The right to present the material orally
?	The right to reproduce figures, tables, and extracts properly cited
? The right to make paper copies of all or part of the contribution for classroom use 
?	The right to deny subsequent commercial use of the contribution
? The right to place the contribution or its abstract on his/her personal Web site as described below. Policies Posting article to author?s Web site Authors may post their unformatted papers or their abstracts to their own Web sites or their departmental Web sites according to the guidelines listed below. If authors wish to post preprints of their articles on other sites, they should be aware of the relevant part of the Dual publication policy that deals with preprints 
Thanks
Donald Parsons
dfp10@capital.net

Quoting elw@stderr.org:
I was informed by the mentors list that the science group was the place to come to look for advice and possible sponsorship to get this package into the debian package tree. Details as follows: 

I can't sponsor you (not a DD), but I'm glad that you've packaged this.
It is a handy package for those of us who might be building
reprint/preprint repositories...
--e

The bug is #171968
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=171968

* Package name : eprints
Version : 3.0.1-1
Upstream Author : Christopher Gutteridge
* URL : http://www.eprints.org
* License : GPL (v2 or later)
Section : web

eprints - Content Management System for Information Archiving

EPrints is a web-based content management system. It allows a large
number of contributors to share their digital objects/documents with
others. Contributors provide descriptive data (metadata) which is
dependent on the type of object being deposited (presentations, articles,
books etc.). Before being published objects must be accepted by an
editor. Users can access published objects through web-page listings,
searches, email alerts or via integration with other systems.

==
So it is basically an OAI compliant archive for sharing publications, which is it's primary focus. Although it can be used to host a great number of different files for different purposes. 

Some examples of companies using it:

	http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/
	http://eprints.rclis.org/
	http://openmed.nic.in/
I have built the package, lintain clean into the debian mentors repository and would appreciate any advice of suitability for submitting to the debian package tree. 

Many Thanks


David Tarrant
--
EPrints Debian Maintainer
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton
UK






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