Re: Cortex Journal Self-Archived and Accessible Free Online at Source

2001-12-16 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Professor S Della Sala wrote: > I took over the editorship of Cortex from De Renzi a few months ago. > > Among the changes that I am implementing, after some struggles with the > publisher: Cortex will now be accessible free for everybody with no > delay on the net (http://www

Cortex Journal Self-Archived and Accessible Free Online at Source

2001-12-16 Thread Professor S Della Sala
Dear Stevan, I took over the editorship of Cortex from De Renzi a few months ago. Among the changes that I am implementing, after some struggles with the publisher: Cortex will now be accessible free for everybody with no delay on the net (http://www.cortex-online.org). I am writing for two reas

Re: The True Cost of the Essentials (Implementing Peer Review)

2001-12-16 Thread Bernard Lang
Just one remark ... the current system does waste a lot of reviewing work ... if only because: - the same paper gets submitted in several places, when not accepted - papers are read by many people who never get to voice their opinion, whether valuable or not. There are many ways that revi

Re: The True Cost of the Essentials (Implementing Peer Review)

2001-12-16 Thread Andrew Odlyzko
Arthur Smith wrote: > In response to Stevan and Andrew, a question for all to consider...: > Stevan Harnad wrote: > > > > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Andrew Odlyzko wrote: > > > [...] However, that does not preclude less expensive > > > modes of operation, either with lower quality, or with shifting som

Re: Research Publication Peer-Review vs. Research Proposal Peer-Review

2001-12-16 Thread Joseph Pietro Riolo
MODERATOR'S NOTE: Cloture has already been invoked on further postings concerning the proposal that putting one's writing into the public domain instead of asserting copyright is the solution to the problem being addressed in this Forum. The problem being addressed in this Forum is that of freeing

Re: The True Cost of the Essentials (Implementing Peer Review)

2001-12-16 Thread David Goodman
I hate to mention it, Eberhard, but I am not sure how many places would want to keep most of them in print format. I am not even sure whether most universities ought Based on use data, print use of many titles -- including many or most APS ones--in almost all science fields is very low for years