At 14:03 Sat, 19 Mar 2005, Stevan wrote:
In a comment added to Richard Poynder's new online column on OA
http://poynder.blogspot.com/2005/03/time-to-walk-talk.html
Bill Hubbard of SHERPA
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
has corrected an important (though intentional!) omission from my
own summary of the outcome of the Berlin 3 conference on implementing
the Berlin Declaration:
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march05/harnad/03harnad.html
.........
(b) It is institutions (not disciplines) that share with their own
researchers a common interest in maximising the visibility, usage
and impact of their own joint research output.
I strongly disagree. Disciplines do share with their own researchers a
common interest in maximising the visibility, usage
and impact of their research output. Progress in any discipline stands to
gain when research results are quickly shared with other researchers in
that discipline.
Lee Miller
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