Nov 15 - 30 is the Virtual Symposium is focussing on a paper by me.
All interested commentators are invited to contribute (in any of three
languages!) http://www.text-e.org/debats/
Skyreading and Skywriting for Researchers:
A Post-Gutenberg Anomaly and How to Resolve it
Stevan Harnad
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 02:52:35PM +, Stevan Harnad wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Chris Armstrong wrote:
>
> > the reason I do not usually enter into these discussions
> > with you is that you never reply except as a put-down...
> > You rarely add to a Socratic discourse, or so it seems to
> >
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Chris Armstrong wrote:
> the reason I do not usually enter into these discussions
> with you is that you never reply except as a put-down...
> You rarely add to a Socratic discourse, or so it seems to
> me; only to a long list of didactic statements.
Dear Chris,
I apologize.
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Chris Armstrong wrote:
> More thoughts on subversion
>
> Chris Armstrong
>
> there is clearly an anomaly surrounding journal charging
> that publishers, libraries and, to a lesser extent, authors have to
> face and address.
The anomaly, in my view, is that journals are charg
Stevan
the reason I do not usually enter into these discussions
with you is that you never reply except as a put-down:
you obviously haven't understood...
this has already been discussed...
etc.
You rarely add to a Socratic discourse, or so it seems to
me; only to a long list of didactic statement
dear Stevan,
thanks a lot for your somehwat summary of the topic up to now.
I agree with what you say. All paths leading to the same destination.
Indeed, we work on all three lines: encourage the authors, the
institutions to set up selfarchiving with our help or gate or not and
promote central arch
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Chris Armstrong wrote:
> If the subversive proposal takes hold,
> journal prices will be forced up - in the short term, at
> least. In the long term, IF it worries them, the
> publishers can lobby for litigation outside of the
> copyright laws, I suppose. Perhaps something to
A late comment on Charles Oppenheim's 16/11 email:
>I agree with Professor Riolo - the best way forward is
>for authors to refuse to assign copyright to a
>publisher, and simply to license them.
>
>...This means that the genie IS out of the bottle ...
Well yes - but, hasn't it really been out of
