On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Greg Kuperberg wrote: > Maybe you want to say more conservatively that new submissions should be > superlinear, i.e., concave up.
Yes, yes, that's it. (And that's: "new self-archived eprint (whether pre- or post-)," NOT "new submission." Submission is for journals. Self-archiving is better described as a "deposit.") > And maybe instead of asymptotics you are interested in the > short term. In that case the right way to say it is that you open > archiving should grow faster in the near term. Yes, it should go concave up, steeply, until the entire (finite) current refereed corpus is up there, online and free. And I do mean steeply. There is no reason it should not all have been up there, freed, yesterday, so certainly no reason to drag it out for another decade. As to "asymptotics": I am referring to the current refereed corpus; this annual corpus is finite though also itself growing somewhat annually, but not nearly so fast as to require my refining the shape of the curve: the "sharp concave up" covers it all... -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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