On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Thomas J. Walker wrote: > Why hasn't APS offered its authors, at a fair price... > the service of posting an > author's APS-formatted article on arXiv?... > > [Authors can already post the APS-formatted version on their own home > pages, but as Andrew Odlyzko has documented, _any_ impediment to access > reduces the use of information...
With the advent of OAI-compliant University Eprint Archives http://www.arl.org/sparc/pubs/enews/aug01.html#6 it no longer makes any difference whatsoever, in terms of visibility or access, and hence usage and impact, whether authors self-archive in a central disciplinary Eprint Archive, like ArXiv or CogPrints, or in their own institutional "home" Eprint Archives. Thanks to OAI-compliance, all the papers in all those archives are interoperable, hence harvestable into single global "virtual archives" such as ARC http://arc.cs.odu.edu/ or http://citebase.eprints.org/cgi-bin/search Stevan Harnad
