Re: EPRINTS = PREPRINTS (unrefereed) + POSTPRINTS (refereed)

2000-05-18 Thread Declan Butler, Nature
Might not systems like ResearchIndex be part of the solution to this problem? http://www.researchindex.com Declan The extract below is from (free access) http://helix.nature.com/webmatters/search/search.html Searches for researchers But what about search engines designed specifically for scientist

Re: EPRINTS = PREPRINTS (unrefereed) + POSTPRINTS (refereed)

2000-05-18 Thread Simon Buckingham Shum
At 9:21 am +0100 18/5/00, Thomas Krichel wrote: ... The problem with self-archiving by authors is the growing tendency of authors to deposit their papers in homepages. It is debatable if this sort of activity is real "archiving". What we need is to have more agents, acting on behalf of a

Economist article + Faustian bargain

2000-05-18 Thread Simon Buckingham Shum
At 4:44 pm -0400 15/5/00, Albert Henderson wrote: on Fri, 12 May 2000 Stevan Harnad wrote: > Researchers are not journalists selling their words, they are scientists and scholars reporting their findings. Their rewards do not come from tolls charged for access to their texts; they come from

Re: EPRINTS = PREPRINTS (unrefereed) + POSTPRINTS (refereed)

2000-05-18 Thread Thomas Krichel
Steve Hitchcock writes > Paul Ginsparg defined an eprint as "something self-archived by the author". > Isn't that the clearest distinction, and an obvious one for this forum to > draw? I tend to think of an eprint as a "public-access scientific document in electronic form". The insistance