I cannot see any empirical evidence that the assertion below is more than wishful thinking.
2010/1/17 Heather Morrison <hgmor...@sfu.ca>: > On 17-Jan-10, at 6:42 AM, Sally Morris wrote: > > Stevan asserts that researchers who cannot afford access to the > published > version of articles are perfectly happy with the self-archived author's > final version. There is in contrary evidence that researchers strongly prefer publisher's PDF and that they prefer to deposit publisher's PDFs in IRs although they aren't free in eternity. The best way to get a citable version is to mail the author if he has a publisher's PDF. (i) It is a myth (and Harnadian orthodoxy) that mail buttons in IRs are working well - no empirical evidence. (ii) It is a myth that there is a well working central OAI harvesting scholars know. OAIster is down and this was the most unfortunate OA event for me in 2009 - but nobody cares (except Mr Krichel, maybe). Klaus Graf