[Tibeto-burman-linguistics] Many thanks

[Randy J. LaPolla]

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De : Alexis Michaud <alexis.michaud at cnrs.fr <mailto:alexis.michaud at cnrs.fr>>
Date: dim. 27 sept. 2020 à 09:24
Subject: Re: [Tibeto-burman-linguistics] Many thanks
To: tibeto-burman-linguistics at listserv.linguistlist.org <mailto:tibeto-burman-linguistics at listserv.linguistlist.org> <tibeto-burman-linguistics at listserv.linguistlist.org <mailto:tibeto-burman-linguistics at listserv.linguistlist.org>>


Hi Elissa, hi all, 

Yes, those are very handy. Academia.edu <http://academia.edu/> and researchgate are commercial players, though, and they can change the rules of the game anytime. Last week I wanted to open a draft paper for comments on Academia.edu <http://academia.edu/> and found that it was now a feature reserved for paid accounts. There are also lots of advertisements along the way. That is fair enough: the rule is that, if it's free, we're the product. The Conditions of use of Academia.edu <http://academia.edu/> (if we care to read them) clarify that we hand over to them ownership of our papers ^^

Seen in this light, institutional archives like Arxiv or HAL-SHS <https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/> have much, much greater appeal. They are free for users, curated by professionals, and they guarantee long-term archiving. So do consider depositing in such archives, for stability and public service. HAL-SHS is open to depositors from any institution in the world. A recent example of a paper about a Tibeto-Burman language is available here <https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02945164>. 

Preprint archives have constraints of their own (if the publisher has exclusive copyright, only a preprint version can be deposited, not the final, published PDF), but also some very real strengths and advantages. Thus, deposits in HAL-SHS can have links to relevant primary data. For instance, in the case of Dobbs and La's paper in Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area: 
https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0004841 <https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0004841>
https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0004839 <https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0004839>

That's for publications. About data, it also seems worth putting in a word for institutional archives: language data archives that are members of the DELAMAN network / the Open Language Archive Community (OLAC). In times when access to the field is even harder than usual, the value of well-curated data, made publicly available, is even clearer. 

With best wishes
Alexis

Le dim. 27 sept. 2020 à 07:11, Elissa Ikeda <elissa.ikeda at gmail.com <mailto:elissa.ikeda at gmail.com>> a écrit :
Dear all,

I would like to express my appreciation to all of you who have made your work publicly available in PDF form on services like academia.edu <http://academia.edu/> and researchgate.net <http://researchgate.net/>. In an era when we can't get our graduate students into the country, much less into the library, your generosity is proving invaluable.

Thank you,
Elissa Ikeda
Payap University, Linguistics Department



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