At 04:52 PM 5/5/00 +0100, Steve Harnad wrote (in part):
>
>Open self-archiving requires no "facilitating." And NO price is fair
>for something one can have for free. The APS (American Physical Society)
>already "facilitates" self-archiving simply by explicitly ALLOWING it;
>and the 128,000 self-archived papers in arXiv.org to date attest to its
>timeliness and utility:
>
>http://arXiv.org/cgi-bin/show_monthly_submissions
>http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/help/copyright.html
>ftp://aps.org/pub/jrnls/copy_trnsfr.asc
>
The APS does not seem to allow the posting of its PDF files (which are
equivalent to the archived version of the articles):
"The author(s) shall have the following rights:
....
(4) The right to post and update the article on e-print servers as long as
files prepared and/or formatted by APS or its vendors are not used for
that purpose, and as long as access to the server does not depend on
payment of access, subscription, or membership fees. Any such posting
made or updated after acceptance of the article for publication shall
include a copyright notice as in (3)."
[from ftp://aps.org/pub/jrnls/copy_trnsfr.asc]
Tom
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