Ranking Web of Universities: 2010 July edition

[Isidro F. Aguillo]

Dear Dr. Kuhn:

Thank you for your kind message. As supporters of Open Access 
initiatives, we are in favor of these situations you described. However 
our paragraphs refer to a completely different situation: librarians 
that are adding THOUSANDS of papers of authors unrelated with their 
organization and without any copyright agreement with them. Even worst, 
the reason for doing that is for increasing their web ranking.

Best regards,

Heinrich C. Kuhn escribió:
> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe):
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>
> First of all: Thanks!
>
> Second: at http://www.webometrics.info/
> it is written:
> "
> We have discovered several universities that are hosting large 
> numbers of academic papers authored by scientist that do not 
> belong to those institutions. This is not only unfair, but it 
> clearly violates copyright of the involved papers.
> "
> Please be aware that this is not necessarily so: Such papers
> may be hosted where they are hosted because
> -   The author of that paper wished then paper to be 
>     hosted at the hosting institution and the hosting
>     institution acted on his wish.
> -   The license (CC or other) of the paper permits such
>     hosting and the archive in question is an archive
>     for a certain subject.
> -   The author once was a member of the hosting institution.
>
>    Best regards
>
> Heinrich C. Kuhn
>
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