On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Lars Aronsson wrote: > [H]ow do we determine if an article is "permanently" accessible?... > I know but one way to guarantee permanent access, and that is to allow > free copying and republishing.
Webwide toll-free copying, downloading, and storing of self-archived articles is allowed. Webwide harvesting and caching is unpreventable. Republishing is unnecessary. Negotiating republishing rights is hence a needless obstacle and deterrent. Permanence is always just a matter of probability. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#1.Preservation The primary preservation burden for the self-archived versions of toll-access journal articles is on the primary toll-access version. The full preservation burden is taken over only if and when the toll-access journal converts to open-access. The self-archived versions of physics articles from 1991, and their respective enhanced impacts, are still alive and well today. The versions non-archived out of perennity-qualms or failure to negotiate republication rights -- and their respective enhanced impacts -- never came to be. Stevan Harnad NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004) is available at the American Scientist Open Access Forum: To join the Forum: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html Post discussion to: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@amsci.org Hypermail Archive: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html Unified Dual Open-Access-Provision Policy: BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
