On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Alan Story wrote: > In a recent posting, Stevan Harnad wrote: > > "The goal is to free the refereed literature for one and all online. > That is what self-archiving does." > > I am correct in assuming, I take it, that this "freeing" of the academic > literature also "frees" it from certain copyright restrictions
See: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/2-Resolving-the-Anomaly/sld007.htm > and, in > particular, allows such articles to be downloaded, printed, > and distributed by academics to own students at the cost of printing, > that is, allows non-profit educational uses of this literature > without permission. Yes, but note that this only applies to the author/institution self-archived REFEREED JOURNAL literature. This special author-give-away should literature should not be conflated with fair-use issues pertaining to, say, textbook or other material that is non-author-giveaway (i.e., by far the lion's share of the literature) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/2-Resolving-the-Anomaly/sld002.htm http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/2-Resolving-the-Anomaly/sld006.htm > This matter is seldom, if ever mentioned, on the list...but anything less > does not free the literature. The matter, like many others, is repeatedly mentioned on the list! See the Archives 1998-2000: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stevan Harnad har...@cogsci.soton.ac.uk Professor of Cognitive Science har...@princeton.edu Department of Electronics and phone: +44 23-80 592-582 Computer Science fax: +44 23-80 592-865 University of Southampton http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ Highfield, Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/ SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing free access to the refereed journal literature online is available at the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00): http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html You may join the list at the site above. Discussion can be posted to: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@amsci.org