From: Stevan Harnad <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:44:37 -0500

> From: Sally Morris on Liblicence
> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:28:18 +0000
>
> Unless you also provide the date when you read it, people may not know
> whether a correction/retraction/whatever had been appended to the VoR at
> that time?

Date/Version read is helpful, feasible, advisable -- but a
straightforward matter of scholarly practice (which will not be
decided on the liblicense Forum!).

My comments are only about the bearing of the versions question on OA
and OA mandates.

In particular:

"Is accessing, quoting and citing the author's refereed, revised,
accepted final draft good enough for scholars and scientists when they
are denied access to the publisher's version-of-record, because they
or their institution cannot afford subscription/license/pay-per-view
access?"

The answer is a resounding, unambiguous, unequivocal  "YES".

All the rest is irrelevant,  and just equivocation or question-begging.

Stevan Harnad