At 13:57 18/06/02 +0100, Stevan Harnad wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Steve Hitchcock wrote:
> this is a PR issue. Since journalists always seem
> to make this conflation, someone ought to address it.
>
> The fundamental problem... is that the open access
> message, as presented, is too complex and too long.
>
> Give journalists the correct contraction and they are more likely to get
> the story right.
Here's a simple one that short-circuits misunderstanding
if read while awake:
Open Self-Archiving of Peer-Reviewed Publications
Remembering that this has to address popular media and the widest academic
audience, there are potentially problems with the use of 'open', 'self',
'archiving' and 'self-archiving'. At least the remainder is fairly
unambiguous.
I think we can spare a few more words in this sentence.
Steve
