Iain Stevenson wrote: >(a). Implicitly, the publication model of open-access and self-archiving >reflects the publishing culture of Anglo-American STM research, well-funded >with grants that include publication costs and I suspect also salaried >research assistantsa nd post-docs to do the leg-work in archiving. In the >tradition of social science and humanities research, typified by sole >researchers with smallish (or no) grants, self-archiving probably isn't easily >achieved, unless the institution where the worker is based provides, staffs and >pays for a self-archiving system. And where does that leave the self-funded >ndependent scholar who is still a feature of many of the soft-sciences?
I have to disagree. As a researcher in a humanities department, with limited grants, no salaried assistants and no postdocs, I've found no serious obstacles to self-archiving. The software (I have deposited papers in two different archives both of them running eprints) is easy to use, registration simple and clear, and the process of archiving a paper takes very little time. (I'm 'lucky' to work in the philosophy of science and cognitive science, both of which have eprints archives, but I'm presently agitating/archivangelising for my university to set up an institutional archive.) David Spurrett Philosophy University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 4041, South Africa. T: +27 (31) 260 2309 / 260 2292 F: +27 (31) 260 3031 E: [email protected] W: http://www.nu.ac.za/undphil/spurrett/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please find our disclaimer at http://www.disclaimer.nu.ac.za -------------------------------------------------------------------- <<<<gwavasig>>>>
