I don't disagree on Stevan's point about peer review, below, and
Stevan, I'd be grateful if you'd point out to me, offline, exactly
where the conflation appears, so I can correct it.
John
On Dec 3, 2003, at 9:15 PM, Stevan Harnad wrote:
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, John Unsworth wrote:
I thought you'd be interested in this--a talk I gave earlier today to
deans (of arts and sciences) and provosts from CIC/Big Ten
universities, in Chicago.
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/CICsummit.htm
My old friend John Unsworth's proposals to the provosts are valuable
ones -- except for the conflation here and there between self-archiving
and self-publishing!
The goal is open access to peer-reviewed research articles. The way to
achieve that goal is not for universities to become their own
peer-review
providers and publishers! That has to continue to be outsourced to
independent journals. The way to achieve open access is for
universities
to become *open-access providers* for their own peer-reviewed research
article output (which continues to be published in those independent
journals) by self-archiving them:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/
Slide0022.gif
Stevan Harnad
