On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Jim Till wrote:
But, what about reasons WHY the primary research literature should be
freed? Here's my first attempt at a summary of some of the main reasons:
1. It should be done:
- Information gap: Libraries and researchers in poor countries can't
afford most of
At 16:46 20/08/01 -0400, Albert Henderson wrote:
I am not getting through. I should have asked,
Are there any valid reasons
to justify massive self-archiving?
Yes:
Improved access to data - faster, available everywhere, always
Higher productivity
Better
At 16:46 20/08/01 -0400, Albert Henderson wrote:
http://opcit.eprints.org/tdb198/opcit/
http://opcit.eprints.org/ijh198/
Now that this source is clearly involved in a
propaganda campaign where conclusions are so often
unrelated to the facts, who would take it
At 11:44 21/08/01 +0100, vous avez écrit:
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Albert Henderson wrote:
on Fri, 17 Aug 2001 Stevan Harnad har...@coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote:
The 36% referred to the number of authors that updated their reference
at that time: this is another irrelevant statistic (for
on 21 Aug 2001 T.D.BRODY tdb...@ecs.soton.ac.uk asked
I put again what I asked in a previous post: why are you (are
you?) against providing public, Internet based access to the primary
give-away literature?
I am against self-archiving as a substitute for
libraries, library
on 21 Aug 2001 Steve Hitchcock sh...@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote:
At 16:46 20/08/01 -0400, Albert Henderson wrote:
I am not getting through. I should have asked,
Are there any valid reasons
to justify massive self-archiving?
Yes:
Improved access to
Albert Henderson's postings are so wide of the mark that they
tend to answer themselves, by self-caricature. Lately they are
also eliciting flaming, so I'm afraid I have to re-invoke cloture.
(Apologies to those on the list who will keep getting the
rejected postings anyway, because they have
[Moderator's Note: Good manners dictate that I give
Albert the last word, so here he has it. No rebuttal
from me. But now let this really be the end of it. S.H.]
on 21 Aug 2001 Stevan Harnad har...@coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk
hoped for the last word:
=
Albert Henderson's postings are
on 21 Aug 2001 Helene Bosc hb...@tours.inra.fr commented:
May I share my feeling ? I think that Albert plays a kind of Devil's
Advocate because he his just looking for celebrity. He has succeeded :
look at the number of message and reactions he has generated on this forum.
His name is now
