Re: Fwd: Interest in Memento?
What is this supposed to do that the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/index.php) doesn't/won't/can't? Or for that matter, WebCite (http://www.webcitation.org/)? B. On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:53 -0500, Stevan Harnad amscifo...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Leslie Carr lac -- ecs.soton.ac.uk Date: Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:53 AM Subject: Interest in Memento? To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk Have you heard of Memento, one of Herbert van de Sompel's recent projects. Have you ever felt frustrated by your inability to get to old versions of Web pages? Did you bookmark a page last year, and revisited it recently only to find that the current content isn't even remotely related to what caught your interest back then? ... Wouldnât it be much easier if you could just connect to cnn.com, Wikipedia, or news.bbc.co.uk indicating that you are interested in the pages of March 20 2008, not the current ones? If you could activate a time machine in your browser or bot? (http://www.mementoweb.org/) We (EPrints) have been asked to think about providing support for this facility in our repository software, Â but we'd like to get some feedback from the community. Would this be useful to anyone? What use cases can you foresee? Indeed, have you ever felt frustrated by the lack of this facility, as the project page assumes? -- Les Carr
Re: Submission Fees (was: RE: Overlay Journals Over Again...)
Heather Morrison: If 10% of last year's revenue stream is coming from publication charges, prices should be decreased by 10%. OR, libraries and others such as funding agencies, departments, etc., should not support the publication charges. While I have seen publishers claim that OA uptake is very low or similar, I have not seen any figures -- does anyone know of a hybrid model where the %OA uptake has been quantified? Does anyone know of a hybrid publisher who has explicitly adjusted their subscription prices in accordance with OA uptake? The numbers may prove useful, because libraries etc who are going to refuse to support hybrid charges at popular journals will have to deal with unhappy faculty, and perhaps the best way to defuse that situation is to have actual data to hand showing %OA uptake and the absence of any proportional subscription adjustment. Even monkeys have been shown to have an innate sense of fairness... B.
Re: Call for a vote of nonconfidence in the moderator of the AmSci Forum
Such a vote seems unnecessary to me, but if one is to be (is being?) held then I wish to make it clear that I vote to retain Stevan Harnad as moderator.
Re: RE: Jean-Claude Gu�don is wrong, and so is Zinath Rehana
I, too, will conserve bandwidth by simply agreeing with Alma Swan in every particular in re: Zinath Rehana's offensive post, Stevan Harnad's laudable decision not to post same, and Richard Poynder's consummate professionalism. Bill Hooker www.sennoma.net
