On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Keith Seitter wrote:
> One thing we deal with in the American Meteorological Society Journals is
> that scientists from some countries are prohibited from paying page charges
> with government research funds...
>
> Given this situation, we have always felt that it would be bes
Arthur Smith's apologia for Elsevier copyright policy can be completely
understood (and rejected) as being based on a false opposition:
Researchers have a choice between (1) a toll-based refereed literature
they can trust, or (2) a toll-free unrefereed literature they cannot
trust. The truth is tha
On 24 Sep 1998 Tony Barry wrote:
> There is a more fundamental question which relates to the concept of a
> "final version". We are so used to the static nature of print that we have
> ingrained into us the concept that a publication _should_ be finalised.
> Electronic publications increasingly a
On Tue, 22 Sep 1998 Stevan Harnad wrote:
>(1) I write a paper. It consists of the following:
>
> "The ratiometer reading for Clintonite-21 it 4.072."
> ...
>(3) JoR sends it to referees, who reply "brilliant finding, but
>failed to make the Starrken correction: the reading should be 3.972."
>
I have been following this forum and finding the discussion fascinating.
There appear to be several threads under which I could make this comment,
but let me do it here.
One thing we deal with in the American Meteorological Society Journals is
that scientists from some countries are prohibited fro
I would just like to remind people how recent the ejournal phenomenon really
is. I have been an editor of the small electronic journal PSYCHE since
1992. When we published our first articles there were less than 20 (<15??)
ejournals world-wide, most of which had been started less than 5 years
befo
RE-THINKING
>Tony Barry wrote:
>
>There is a more fundamental question which relates to the concept of a
>"final version". We are so used to the static nature of print that we have
>ingrained into us the concept that a publication _should_ be finalised.
In my own small journal we have a policy of
