On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:36:54 +0200, Stevan Harnad <har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
The posting below concerns the general digital preservation problem and its costs and business models. That is not the subject matter of the American Scientist Open Access Forum, which is about open access (and, at most, about long-term access to an institution's own self-archived output), *not* about digital preservation in general, or digital preservation of the official contents of journals in particular, nor its costs or the business models for covering those costs. Please redirect discussion of digital preservation in general (as opposed to what is specific to open-access content provision and preservation in particular) to the Digital Preservation list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/archives/digital-preservation.html
I don't suppose you'll publish this but I absolutely disagree with your assessment. The issue arose as part of an economic question concerning the establishement of an institutional repository. I would consider the economics of IRs as a legitimate topic for this list - but you are the moderator. Bye, Barry
