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
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(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 . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lee N. Miller phone: (607) 255-3221 Editor Emeritus Ecological Society of America 127 West State Street, Suite 301 Ithaca, NY 14850 USA email: l...@cornell.edu