Andrew H. Knoll is
* Fisher Professor of Natural History and
* Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
* Curator of the Paleobotanical Collections in the Harvard University Herbaria

http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/knoll/knoll-oeb.html
http://www.eps.harvard.edu/people/faculty/knoll/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_H._Knoll

Browsing by Harvard-affiliated Author "Andrew Herbert Knoll" in "DASH" (Digital Disappointing Access to Scholarship at Harvard, see http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5918167/) I found 100 articles.

First article:

Bambach, Richard K., Andrew H. Knoll, and John J. Sepkoski. 2002. Anatomical and ecological constraints on Phanerozoic animal diversity in the marine realm. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 99(10): 6854-6859.

One can read in DASH:

At the direction of the depositing author this work is not currently accessible through DASH.

But the article is free on the publisher's website!
http://www.pnas.org/content/99/10/6854.full

Publishers policy according "ROMEO":
"Publisher's version/PDF cannot be used in repository, but made be used on authors website"

The same case with the same publisher:
http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3196273
http://www.pnas.org/content/101/50/17555.full

http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3202419
http://www.pnas.org/content/103/14/5442.full

http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3119541
http://www.pnas.org/content/94/13/6600.full

http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3119531
http://www.pnas.org/content/72/7/2488

and more.

Free in DASH are 3 of 100 Knoll articles

http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3196097
Publisher's PDF from UCP (ROMEO: "Publisher's version/PDF may be used (encouraged)")

http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3196275
"Publisher PDF may be archived 6 months after publication"

http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3200257
I cannot explain this exception: "Publisher's version/PDF cannot be used" (Elsevier!)

The following is no complete list of free versions in the web - I didn't check all 100 articles with Google Scholar.

http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3007650
isn't free in DASH but in the web:
http://www.geol.ucsb.edu/faculty/porter/Papers/Karlstrom_et_al_2000.pdf

Not free:
http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3008116
Free:
http://www.rcn.montana.edu/pubs/pdf/2005/Marshall%20et%20al%202005%20precamb%20res.pdf

Not free:
http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3007654
Free:
http://www.paper.edu.cn/hotpaper/paperedu-1/boss/yinleiming20070107.pdf

Not free:
http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3054827
Free:
http://bill.srnr.arizona.edu/classes/182/PDF_Files/KnollCarroll.pdf

Not free:
http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3007638
Free:
http://geol.queensu.ca/people/narbonne/KnollWalterNarbonneChristieBlick_Lethaia_2006.pdf
http://www.stratigraphy.org/bak/ediacaran/Knoll_et_al_2004a.pdf

Not free:
http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3228647
Free:
http://geol.queensu.ca/people/narbonne/EdiacaranPerspectiveScience.pdf

Not free:
http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3196272
Free:
http://xray1.physics.sunysb.edu/research/pdf_papers/2002/boyce_geology_2002.pdf
http://geosci.uchicago.edu/people/boyce_reprints/2002GeologyXANES.pdf

Not free:
http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3007647
Free:
http://biology.kenyon.edu/courses/biol241/extinction%20and%20marine%20diversity%20banbach%202004.pdf
http://web.ipb.ac.id/~mujizat/jurnal/pbio2004b.pdf

Not free:
http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3117930
Free:
http://geosci.uchicago.edu/people/boyce_reprints/2002PaleobioLeafDevo.pdf

Not free:
http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3008142
Free:
http://nick.tosca.googlepages.com/Tosca_2005_EPSL.pdf

Not free:
http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3119538
Free:
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~meech/NAIJC/papers/MeridianiPlanum_Science2004_AqueousEnv.pdf (and others)

Not free:
http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3119240
Free (not legal?)
http://www.ecologia.unam.mx/laboratorios/evolucionmolecular/viejo/talleresycursos/procariontes/articulos/knoll_1998.pdf

Not free
http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3007621
Free on publisher's website (temporarily?)
http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/153110703769016299?cookieSet=1

Not free:
http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3119536
Free:
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~kaufman/pdf/Kaufman_95.pdf

Not free:
http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3196092
Free:
http://pangea.stanford.edu/~jlpayne/Knoll%20et%20al%202007%20EPSL%20Permian%20Triassic%20paleophysiology.pdf

Not free:
http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3117931
Free on publisher's website:
http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/full/91/2/214

Not free, but should be free according the ROMEO list
http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3200255
CUP has the policy: "Publishers version/PDF may be used in an institutional repository or PubMed Central after 12 month embargo"

Not in the DASH list but free:
http://www.geol.ucsb.edu/faculty/porter/Papers/PorterKnoll2000.pdf

Some thoughts on this:

(i) The more authors an article has the more likely is that it is free in the web.

(Professor Knoll wasn't until now a fan of self-archiving like his co-authors.)

(ii) Professor Knoll has deposited only publisher's PDFs (or given a bibliography and DASH has downloaded them).

This confirms my Zurich ZORA hypothesis:
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5815961/

Scholars doesn't like to deposit preprints or postprints even this is allowed by the publisher. They deposit PDFs because PDFs are citable.

(May be they delete electronic versions after publication, too.)

It seems that DASH has checked the publisher's policies and made accessible 3 of the 100 eprints. In one case I cannot explain why the eprint is free, in another ROMEO says that OUP allows using the publisher's PDF.

Please note that DASH has no eprint button. I have argued several times against it:
http://archiv.twoday.net/search?q=eprint+button

(I do not know if Harvard affiliated users can access the closed eprints. If not one can wait until Professor Knoll is 70 years dead and the copyright is expired. If they can this is only an advantage of the "happy few" at Harvard.)

(iii) It is not helpful for users that DASH doesn't gives a hint if the link to the publisher's version leads to free content.

(iv) Don't trust in DASH! Scholars should always search for free versions in Google Scholar and if not found there in the Google websearch.

One cannot expect that DASH is so courageous to link to free versions in the web (these could be illegal ones).

(v) It is not possible easily to measure the effect of Harvard's OA policy if one cannot filter no-free eprints in DASH.

Update: http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/6250326/

Source: http://www.eps.harvard.edu/people/faculty/knoll/Knoll_on_Mars.jpg

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/

http://www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/cocoon/frh3/index.html

The fine rolls of King Henry III (1216-72) are an important source for the study of politics and society in thirteenth-century England. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and jointly run by King’s College London, Canterbury Christ Church University and The National Archives, the project democratises the rolls by making them freely available for the very first time in book form and online, and most importantly, accessible in English as well as the original Latin!

The Open Book Alliance, involving the Internet Archive, industry heavyweights (Yahoo, Amazon, Microsoft), and author, publisher, and library groups, has launched to criticize and oppose the Google Book Search settlement.

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6685992.html

http://www.openbookalliance.org/

http://twitter.com/oballiance

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Open-Book-Alliance-gegen-Google-formiert-sich--/meldung/144371 (German)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwnbCmVrISQ

The ARSC Journal is a semi-annual, peer-reviewed publication that serves to document the history of recorded sound and includes original articles on many aspects of research and preservation. Back issues of the Journal are available -- free of charge -- as full-text PDFs.

Over 5,000 scanned pages contained in the first 25 volumes (1967 through 1994) can be accessed at:
http://www.arsc-audio.org/journal.html

The New Opportunities Fund invested millions of pounds into a programme to Digitise the nation's Cultural Heritage. It created tens of thousands of interesting and useful digital images, learning resources and other material, which are now at risk of loss as the resources are not being promoted and the public have no idea they're there to use.

http://archives20.ning.com/profiles/blogs/petition-to-save-digitised

http://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/2009/08/when-is-it-in-the-public-domain.html (Peter Hirtle)

Quote:

We often want legal certainty when we think about digitization projects. What we should be asking instead is whether what we want to do useful, and how likely it is that anyone would object.