Dear Herman and all,

I can do no better than to echo Audrey's comments.  Academia.edu has emerged in recent years as a very useful place for academics to network and exchange their papers.  It's a kind of Facebook for serious people, and very low-nuisance.  A lot of us are benefitting from it already, as a way to stay au courant with each other's publications.  It was founded by a fellow of All Souls in Oxford: what more need I say :-)

One of the points about Academia.edu is that responsibility for uploading papers is distributed, which means that each individual scholar takes responsibility for their own copyright issues.  This is is better than having a central repository that could be targetted like Library.nu was, last year.  (Though I suppose a consortium of publishers could attack Academia.edu for making it too easy for the rest of us.)

Finally, Audrey hits the nail on the head again about copyright.  There are ready-made licenses out there that are recommended for academic authors.  See here for further links.  Just download one and send it to your publisher when they as you to transfer copyright.  Say, "I'd rather give you a license like this." 

Best,
Dominik


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On 14 October 2013 15:49, Audrey Truschke <audrey.truschke@gmail.com> wrote:
I'll let Dominik take-up the question of an Indology repository, but
this discussion raises a general point that's worth emphasizing: many
journals allow authors to disseminate their own work freely (sometimes
after an initial waiting period of 6-12 months after publication). I
encourage everybody--put your publications online, whether on your
faculty website, on academia.edu, or in various other online
repositories.

Also, keep in mind that when a journal asks you to sign a contract
limiting your ability to distribute your work, you can often negotiate
this and change the terms. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Audrey
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Department of Religious Studies
Stanford University
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On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Herman Tull <hermantull@gmail.com> wrote:
> Probably not entirely kosher, but is there a way to make an Indology only
> repository of articles of interest? So that when one of us makes such
> requests, we can easily share.
>
> I'm too lazy to search the archive right now, but have we had this
> conversation before?
>
> Dominik?
>
> Herman Tull
> Princeton, NJ
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Herman Tull <hermantull@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Edwin
>>
>> Sorry; meant to send this to whole list;  I will resend!
>>
>> Herman
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Herman Tull <hermantull@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Probably not entirely kosher, but is there a way to make an Indology only
>>> repository of articles of interest? So that when one of us makes such
>>> requests, we can easily share.
>>>
>>> I'm too lazy to search the archive right now, but have we had this
>>> conversation before?
>>>
>>> Dominik?
>>>
>>> Herman Tull
>>> Princeton, NJ
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 8:38 AM, <edbryant@rci.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As would I - perhaps it can be made available to the list?  I'll see if
>>>> I
>>>> can get it through our library system.   EB
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > I would also be grateful. Thank you!
>>>> >
>>>> > On Oct 14, 2013, at 4:55 AM, Francois Voegeli
>>>> > <francois.voegeli@gmail.com>
>>>> > wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> I would be grateful if someone could send me a copy too.
>>>> >> Thanks in advance.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On 14 oct. 2013, at 08:07, Christèle Barois
>>>> >> <christellebarois@WANADOO.FR> wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >>> Dear members of the list,
>>>> >>> I should be grateful if someone could send me a copy of John
>>>> >>> Brockington's article  : "The Puranas - Priestly or Popular ?"
>>>> >>> Haryana Sahitya Akademi Journal of Indological Studies 2, 1987, p.
>>>> >>> 122-134.
>>>> >>> I thank you very much in advance,
>>>> >>> Christèle Barois
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