Comments on: Please submit to Mana’o http://savageminds.org/2007/10/05/please-submit-to-manao/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:43:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kate G. http://savageminds.org/2007/10/05/please-submit-to-manao/comment-page-1/#comment-517867 Kate G. Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:32:17 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2007/10/05/please-submit-to-manao/#comment-517867 What is the current status of the Mana'o Open Access Project? It's not unusual for me to try to visit the site, or send someone there, only to find that the site isn't working. Has it been too successful? can it not handle the 100s or even 1000s of people who want access to our dissertations, theses, drafts, articles, chapters, etc.? I hope it's not legal problems from nasty publishers. Seriously, what's the state of play on our very own Open Access, Rex? What is the current status of the Mana’o Open Access Project? It’s not unusual for me to try to visit the site, or send someone there, only to find that the site isn’t working. Has it been too successful? can it not handle the 100s or even 1000s of people who want access to our dissertations, theses, drafts, articles, chapters, etc.? I hope it’s not legal problems from nasty publishers.
Seriously, what’s the state of play on our very own Open Access, Rex?

]]> By: MANA’O - New Open Access Repository for Anthropology « Culture Matters http://savageminds.org/2007/10/05/please-submit-to-manao/comment-page-1/#comment-129744 MANA’O - New Open Access Repository for Anthropology « Culture Matters Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:41:39 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2007/10/05/please-submit-to-manao/#comment-129744 [...] increasing access to anthropological writing. Here’s the announcement from Alex Golub over at Savage Minds (and the University of Hawai’i at Manoa): It is with great pleasure that I request [...] [...] increasing access to anthropological writing. Here’s the announcement from Alex Golub over at Savage Minds (and the University of Hawai’i at Manoa): It is with great pleasure that I request [...]

]]> By: L.L. Wynn http://savageminds.org/2007/10/05/please-submit-to-manao/comment-page-1/#comment-125079 L.L. Wynn Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:48:44 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2007/10/05/please-submit-to-manao/#comment-125079 Done, Rex: http://culturematters.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/manao-new-open-access-repository-for-anthropology/ cheers Lisa Done, Rex: http://culturematters.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/manao-new-open-access-repository-for-anthropology/
cheers
Lisa

]]> By: Jason Baird Jackson http://savageminds.org/2007/10/05/please-submit-to-manao/comment-page-1/#comment-124941 Jason Baird Jackson Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:28:04 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2007/10/05/please-submit-to-manao/#comment-124941 Alex, Congratulations on this important development. The new repository will be especially valuable to those who want to start depositing their work but whose home institutions are not ready to build and maintain such systems. Thanks for the hard work that you and colleagues have invested in it, and to the University of Hawai’i for hosting it. Alex, Congratulations on this important development. The new repository will be especially valuable to those who want to start depositing their work but whose home institutions are not ready to build and maintain such systems. Thanks for the hard work that you and colleagues have invested in it, and to the University of Hawai’i for hosting it.

]]> By: Rex http://savageminds.org/2007/10/05/please-submit-to-manao/comment-page-1/#comment-124841 Rex Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:31:20 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2007/10/05/please-submit-to-manao/#comment-124841 Thanks L.L. -- If you want to help please post this call for submissions to Culture Matters! :) Your first question: I'm familiar with the wide variety of licenses that publishers use, and the short answer is that you should contact support@manaoproject.org and we can advise you on how the self-archiving clauses in your agreement relate to a repository. Please don't assume you can't share! Often self-archiving clauses and non-profit repositories are more sympatico then you'd think. The second question you ask has to do with creating and sharing metadata. Uh... its difficult to get into details here unless you are a librarian or technologist who REALLY cares about this stuff. The short answer is: things in our repository will be available for 'harvesting' so they will be easier to find, but at this pre-release stage we are building a 'collection of content', not a 'catalog' -- if that makes sense. Thanks L.L. –

If you want to help please post this call for submissions to Culture Matters! :)

Your first question: I’m familiar with the wide variety of licenses that publishers use, and the short answer is that you should contact support {at} manaoproject(.)org and we can advise you on how the self-archiving clauses in your agreement relate to a repository. Please don’t assume you can’t share! Often self-archiving clauses and non-profit repositories are more sympatico then you’d think.

The second question you ask has to do with creating and sharing metadata. Uh… its difficult to get into details here unless you are a librarian or technologist who REALLY cares about this stuff. The short answer is: things in our repository will be available for ‘harvesting’ so they will be easier to find, but at this pre-release stage we are building a ‘collection of content’, not a ‘catalog’ — if that makes sense.

]]> By: L.L. Wynn http://savageminds.org/2007/10/05/please-submit-to-manao/comment-page-1/#comment-124652 L.L. Wynn Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:23:10 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2007/10/05/please-submit-to-manao/#comment-124652 Rex, what a fantastic idea. I'll hunt down the version of my diss. that I submitted and send it along with a couple of things that are in the public domain. But here's another idea: many journals allow authors to publish on their own websites the things they have written in the version that they submitted to the publisher, a year or two or three after it's published. So for example say I had an article "Z" published in X Journal a couple of years ago. I can't post the PDF of "Z" on my website, but I can post the Word document of the final version of "Z" on my website, along with a link to the published article on the X Journal website (which people may or may not have access to depending on whether their library has subscribed to X Journal). Correct me if I'm wrong on any of this (and I know the rules differ by journal). I do this for my own articles and link to them from my online CV. But I've found that it's really hard to find those articles doing a Google search, so probably nobody finds them anyway. So what would be ideal would be to have an index somewhere of the articles that people put on their own websites. Now, I can't post "Z" on another website that's not my own personal website. But I expect I could post the abstract and link to my website on another website. Would Mana'o consider doing something like that as part of their open access repository? I know it would be a challenge to keep track of all the links; websites and web addresses are never all that stable, so it might not be something that you have the capability or interest in trying. But it would be a way that people who are really interested in the idea of open access could radically expand access to their work without violating copyright law. (Maybe something like this already exists and I don't know about it?) Rex, what a fantastic idea. I’ll hunt down the version of my diss. that I submitted and send it along with a couple of things that are in the public domain. But here’s another idea: many journals allow authors to publish on their own websites the things they have written in the version that they submitted to the publisher, a year or two or three after it’s published. So for example say I had an article “Z” published in X Journal a couple of years ago. I can’t post the PDF of “Z” on my website, but I can post the Word document of the final version of “Z” on my website, along with a link to the published article on the X Journal website (which people may or may not have access to depending on whether their library has subscribed to X Journal). Correct me if I’m wrong on any of this (and I know the rules differ by journal). I do this for my own articles and link to them from my online CV. But I’ve found that it’s really hard to find those articles doing a Google search, so probably nobody finds them anyway. So what would be ideal would be to have an index somewhere of the articles that people put on their own websites. Now, I can’t post “Z” on another website that’s not my own personal website. But I expect I could post the abstract and link to my website on another website. Would Mana’o consider doing something like that as part of their open access repository? I know it would be a challenge to keep track of all the links; websites and web addresses are never all that stable, so it might not be something that you have the capability or interest in trying. But it would be a way that people who are really interested in the idea of open access could radically expand access to their work without violating copyright law. (Maybe something like this already exists and I don’t know about it?)

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