On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Simon Tanner wrote:
> The article "'Open access' for the rich only" is only available to
> registered users of this site.
> www.thes.co.uk
> 14 day FREE TRIAL
The irony is only apparent, not real! THES is not a peer-reviewed research
journal
but a commercial magazine. Its writers are doing paid work for hire. The authors
of journal articles are not: They are giving away their work free for
research impact.
"1.1. Distinguish the non-give-away literature from the give-away
literature"
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm#1.1
"1.2. Distinguish income (arising from article
sales) from impact (arising from article use)"
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm#1.2
(Letters are not works for hire, but it may be complicated to make a site partly
free and partly not, and in any case that is a matter for magazine policy.)
Can you imagine newspapers and magazines covering their costs by charging their
journalists to publish?
Stevan Harnad
NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open
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is available at the American Scientist Open Access Forum:
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