David Goodman gives a very fair and accurate summary of our interactions in
the AmSci Forum (though I would not have said that some were unfriendly --
just impatient, on my part; and if anything, I'm even more impatient now
that another half-decade has gone by and we still don't have universal OA!)
On 05/15/2010 02:27 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
> But we do have serious competition, and it is scary and thrilling - it
> also happens to be published entirely in Chinese (hudong, baike). But
> even if you don't know how to read Chinese, you can see how they
> display portals and amin pages; images,
Some background:
When I was a librarian open access was one of the principal things I
worked on. Stevan has been for over 10 years an acknowledged leaders
in this field, and his propaganda for open access has been a key
factor for the considerable success it has had--by now all major US
and UK gra
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, William Pietri wrote:
> Of course, if somebody, those folks included, think they can build a
> better encyclopedia, I'd encourage them to try. And I don't mean that in
> a snotty way; it would be useful to Wikipedia to have some serious
> competition. Just this we
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Klaus Graf wrote:
> Stevan Harnad in the American Scientist Open Access Forum:
>
> On Sat, 15 May 2010, Barbara Kirsop [Electronic Publishing Trust for
> Development] wrote:
>
> What is very confusing about [the SAGE survey's] call for feedback is
> the title ["Ope
On 05/15/2010 06:22 AM, Klaus Graf wrote:
> So there we are: OA's biggest canard and nemesis, being daily,
> cumulatively, canonized and amplified by Wikipedia, riding the recursive
> tide of its own notability and notoriety (as an infectious virus,
> cheerfully propagated by the denizens of Wikipe
Stevan Harnad in the American Scientist Open Access Forum:
On Sat, 15 May 2010, Barbara Kirsop [Electronic Publishing Trust for
Development] wrote:
What is very confusing about [the SAGE survey's] call for feedback is
the title ["Open Access Publishing"].
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/soap_survey
