On Mon, 10 May 1999, Thomas J. Walker wrote: > Since 1994, the Florida Entomological Society > has *given* e-reprints to all Fla. Entomol. authors as an added service. > This service is paid from the $45 per page fee that authors have paid since > 1990. However, if library subscriptions begin to drop, e-reprints may then > be sold rather than given away.
Until journals scale down to their one essential service, peer review, and let public archives like LANLe (and E-biomed and Scholar's Forum, as soon as they are ready) handle the rest. The page charge will be for that service, not for the e-prints. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Author.Eprint.Archives/ > Secondly, my proposal does not assume that S/L/P can persist. It assumes > that paper publication isn't going to end immediately and that in the > meanwhile some authors will want to pay a fee (e.g., price of 100 paper > reprints) to secure immediate, permanent, toll-free Web access for the > formatted, refereed, archived version of their articles... They can get almost exactly that for free already, by self-archiving their final, refereed drafts in their local and global servers, as above. > APS is coming close to giving such access away (!) but [...PDF...] The exact PDF page images are not worth the extra money. The (refereed, accepted) figures and text, reformatted without pages for online self-archiving, are just fine. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stevan Harnad har...@cogsci.soton.ac.uk Professor of Cognitive Science har...@princeton.edu Department of Electronics and phone: +44 1703 592-582 Computer Science fax: +44 1703 592-865 University of Southampton http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ Highfield, Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/ SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/
