From: Anali Perry <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 01:03:34 +0000
Hi Ann,
I'm sorry I wasn't more clear in my earlier response. Unpaywall only
searches institutional repositories and publisher sites, so it's about
as legal as one can get - assuming all articles on publisher's sites
are legal, as well as whatever posted on a repository being vetted by
repository management. Regarding which version, if it is on a
publisher's site, it will be the final published version. If it is on
a repository, the default assumption is likely author's final
manuscript, but most repositories have some indicator about which
version was archived - there are some cases where final published
version is allowed, for example, and the repository description would
probably reflect that.
Hope that helps,
Anali Maughan Perry
Associate Librarian - Collections & Scholarly Communication
Arizona State University Libraries
(480) 727-6301
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 14:16:48 -0400
Hi, Anali, that still doesn't answer my question of "how does one know
which version?" "OA version" isn't exactly an answer, or at least not
what I was wondering. Assuming that what is pointed to is definitely
legal, what I meant is, how does one know if this is a final final
published version, an e-print version, an author's manuscript version,
etc. Cheers, Ann Okerson
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 4:52 AM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Anali Perry <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:41:08 +0000
> Subject: RE: ImpactStory releases new Chrome Extension: Unpaywall Hi
> Brian,
>
> Google Scholar does not reliably index all institutional repositories
> (there have been a few studies documenting this - there are issues on
> both the repository & Google sides). Unpaywall specifically indexes
> known OA locations, so it would be more reliable for finding OA
> content. From the FAQ:
> “We rely on some fantastic open data services, especially PubMed
> Central, the DOAJ, Crossref (particularly their license info),
> DataCite, and BASE.”
>
> To answer Ann’s earlier question – Unpaywall searches both publishers’
> sites as well as repositories. If an OA version of the article is
> available via the publisher, then it will point to that. If a
> postprint is available on a repository as the only OA option that
> should be what it pulls up. There’s an option in the settings to have
> Unpaywall signal whether the article is Gold or Green.
>
> Anali Maughan Perry
> Associate Librarian - Collections & Scholarly Communication ASU
> Library
> (480) 727-6301
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