On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 05:54:35PM +0000, Stevan Harnad wrote: > But it is not the (primary) goal of the self-archiving (sub)initiative. > That goal is to maximize research impact by removing needless > access-barriers (because financial access-barriers also happen to be > impact-barriers).
Okay, removing "access barriers". I agree that a well-organized open archive offers superior access to the literature. But still, even if it's your primary motive, it's not mine. It's a motive for me, but not the primary one. I think it's in your interest to recognize other people's motives for open archives rather than to label them as dangerous red herrings. > And please don't reply (again) that the only reason they keep > submitting their work to peer-reviewed journals is because of the > demands of tenure committees. That too is speculation. In the case of most of *my* papers, it's the only reason. There is no speculation in that. -- /\ Greg Kuperberg (UC Davis) / \ \ / Visit the Math ArXiv Front at http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/ \/ * All the math that's fit to e-print *
