Re: Harvesting open-access data as commercial add-ons

2002-04-18 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Steve Hitchcock wrote: > Re: From FOS Newsletter, 4/15/02: > >http://www.mathematicsweb.org/mathematicsweb/show/ > > The Mathematics Web portal is clearly Elsevier (if not > overtly so, e.g. no logo). The preprint link takes you to the Mathematics > Preprint Server. I've visit

Re: Developing an agenda for institutional e-print archives

2002-04-18 Thread Stephen Pinfield
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue31/eprint-archives/ Ariadne 31 March-April 2002 Setting up an institutional e-print archive Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner and John MacColl outline some of the practical issues involved in setting up an OAI-compliant e-print archive in a Higher Education Institute

Re: Harvesting open-access data as commercial add-ons

2002-04-18 Thread Steve Hitchcock
At 12:33 18/04/02 +0100, Stevan Harnad wrote: My own sense is that there is nothing whatsoever to worry about if commercial publishers and providers are re-using Open Access content and services to enhance their own products and services. ... [remainder below] Stevan, There is a saying in

Re: Harvesting open-access data as commercial add-ons

2002-04-18 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Steve Hitchcock wrote: > There is a saying in business, for those who want to try and > divine the future, "follow the money". We want open archives, but we want > them to be economically sustainable. The ability to make the self-archived > peer-reviewed literature freely avai

P�ter Jacs� review of the FOS Newsletter

2002-04-18 Thread Stevan Harnad
Here is a review of Peter Suber's excellent FOS Newsletter. > Excerpt from Péter Jacsó, "Péter's Picks and Pans", _Online > Magazine_, March/April 2002, pp. 79ff. Jacsó's column isn't one of the > free online articles from that issue, so here's a fair-use slice. > > March/April issue of _