Re: Responses to Walt Crawford's reflections on FOS

2002-07-02 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Peter Suber wrote: > In the July issue of _Cites & Insights_, Walt Crawford devotes his opening > essay to reflections on the FOS movement. > http://home.att.net/~wcc.techx/civ2i9.pdf > > Walt Crawford writes: > >If, after you read these articles [by Suber and Young], you're

Re: Ingenta to offer OAI eprint service

2002-07-02 Thread Stevan Harnad
My friend and ally Chris Green's alarm is understandable, in view of several notable instances in which open-access has been betrayed by erstwhile advocates' defecting to the toll-access camp! But that hasn't happened here, with Eprints and Ingenta: On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Christopher D. Green wrote:

"Developing Country Access to On-line Scientific Publishing", 4-5 October 2002

2002-07-02 Thread Peter Suber
Please inform your colleagues interested to participate in a Round Table on DEVELOPING COUNTRY ACCESS TO ON-LINE SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING: Sustainable Alternatives 4-5 October 2002, Trieste, Italy http://www.ict

Re: Ingenta offer to OAI eprint service

2002-07-02 Thread Stevan Harnad
Here are a few comments on the Southampton Press Release that Peter Suber has forwarded. For those in a hurry, here is the short version: Don't panic! Southampton University has not sold out on open-access to the commercial providers! If you read carefully, you will see that not only is the free (

Re: Ingenta to offer OAI eprint service

2002-07-02 Thread Christopher D. Green
Peter Suber wrote: > For immediate release, July 1, 2002 > INGENTA SIGNS STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON TO > CREATE > OPEN ARCHIVE E-PRINT SERVICES > [] > Under the terms of the strategic partnership, Ingenta will create an > enhanced, commercially supported version

Re: Ingenta to offer OAI eprint service

2002-07-02 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Peter Suber wrote: > I'm puzzled by Ingenta and want to explain why... Ingenta no doubt has its own agenda, but I think there is nothing at all there for advocates of open access to worry about. > ...Ingenta does not offer open-access. Publishers pay Ingenta to produce > ele

Ingenta to offer OAI eprint service

2002-07-02 Thread Peter Suber
For immediate release, July 1, 2002 INGENTA SIGNS STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON TO CREATE OPEN ARCHIVE E-PRINT SERVICES Ingenta plc, which empowers the exchange of scholarly and professional research content online, has signed a strategic partnership with the Unive

Re: Excerpts from FOS Newsletter

2002-07-02 Thread Peter Suber
Excerpts from the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter June 17, 2002 Ingenta and FOS I'm puzzled by Ingenta and want to explain why. Ingenta is the world's largest web-based aggregator of priced scientific journal literature. It offers paying customers access to more than 30,000

Responses to Walt Crawford's reflections on FOS

2002-07-02 Thread Peter Suber
In the July issue of _Cites & Insights_, Walt Crawford devotes his opening essay to reflections on the FOS movement. http://home.att.net/~wcc.techx/civ2i9.pdf In the process he comments on: (1) my essay on why FOS progress has been slow, from FOSN for 5/15/02, http://www.topica.com/lists/suber-

Open access to the scientific journal literature

2002-07-02 Thread Peter Suber
Here's the text of my short essay from the inaugural issue of BioMed Central's _Journal of Biology_. Free registration is required to read the essay at the journal site. --Peter. HTML edition http://jbiol.com/content/1/1/3 PDF edition http://jbiol.com/content/pdf/1475-4924-1-3.pdf Journal of

Elsevier's self-archiving policy

2002-07-02 Thread Peter Suber
See also: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0136.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1604.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1963.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1964.html In an article in the July 5 _Chronicle