On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Thomas J. Walker wrote: >sh> The market can then decide whether authors think this is worth the >sh> price -- as long as they are allowed the self-archiving option, hence >sh> the choice... > tjw> Free Web access as offered by ESA includes the right to self archive tjw> and specifically to post the PDF file on any Web server that will have tjw> it. The one aspect of this service yet to be implemented is the posting tjw> of the articles on PubMed Central. ESA is currently trying to arrange tjw> this.
A bit of a misunderstanding here: The choice I meant was the choice between ESA-archiving of the PDF for a fee versus self-archiving one's own version of the refereed final draft for free. Not the a posteriori right to self-archive the PDF once one has paid the ESA fee... Stevan
