On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, [identity deleted] wrote: > I've written to you a couple of times asking for permission to forward > posts to my serials class list, and you very graciously granted me the OK. > Now I have a question. I know that in reality things are not so simple as > the one biggest issue, yet if you had to say what is the biggest obstacle to > open access, open or self- archives, what would it be? This is not an > assignment question. I'm just curious about what you might think.
Good question. I think I can rank-order the at-least 30 obstacles (all groundless, all easily shown to be groundless), but I can't assign them absolute weights (i.e., what percentage of the non-self-archived papers/authors are not self-archived for this reason or for that). So here is the list which started with http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0819.html and evolved through "For Whom the Gate Tolls" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm to eventually make its way into the Self-Archiving Faq http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ I have here re-ordered and sub-grouped it to reflect what I think is the rank-order of the inhibitory effects of the 9 main superordinate categories: (1) 10. Copyright http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#10.Copyright (2) 7. Peer review http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#7.Peer 5. Certification http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#5.Certification 6. Evaluation http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#6.Evaluation 22. Tenure/Promotion http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#22.Tenure 13. Censorship http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#13.Censorship (3) 29. Sitting pretty http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#29.Sitting (4) 1. Preservation http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#1.Preservation 2. Authentication http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#2.Authentication 3. Corruption http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#3.Corruption 23. Version control http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#23.Version 25. Mark-up http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#25.Mark-Up 26. Classification http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#26.Classification 16. Graphics http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#16.Graphics 15. Readability http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#5.Readability 21. Serendipity http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#21.Serendipity 4. Navigation (info-glut) http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#4.Navigation 18. Libraries'/Librarians' future http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#18.Libraries (5) 19. Learned Societies' future http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#19.Learned (6) 17. Publishers' future http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#17 Publishers 8. Paying the piper http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#8.Paying 9. Downsizing http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#9.Downsizing 14. Capitalism http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#14.Capitalism 24. Napster http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#24.Napster (7) 20. University conspiracy http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#20.University 30. Rechanneling toll-savings http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#30.Rechanneling 28. Affordability http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#28.Affordability (8) 12. Priority http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#12.Priority 27. Secrecy http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#27.Secrecy (9) 11. Plagiarism http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#11. Plagiarism Stevan Harnad NOTE: Complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online is available at the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01 & 02 & 03): http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html Posted discussion to: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@amsci.org Dual Open-Access Strategy: BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it. http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0026.gif http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0021.gif http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0024.gif http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0028.gif