On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Klaus Graf <klausg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
As I have shown at http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5193609/ the Request button isn't legal in Germany. (1) I regret to point out that -- like everyone else in this discussion -- you have not shown, you have merely asserted. Your Request-button-ideology is based on pure arbitrariness. (2) The Button is not ideology, it is concrete, implemented, practical technology: click here If the author only has the mail adress of the requester and no university affiliation - what are the criteria to decide? Random? (3) For screen shots showing how the eprint-requester can (as in all reprint-request cards for over a half-century) indicate, if he wishes, his institution and his reasons for the request, click here. Or simply NO - ...most scholars in my several tests have'nt reacted on my request button tests. (4) Mr. Graf, I cannot explain why some of the authors from whom you have requested eprints have declined to fulfill your eprint-request. (5) The decision to send a reprint or eprint is a discretionary one, on the part of the author, and that is exactly how it should be. Stevan Harnad