In the October issue of _Cites & Insights_, Walt Crawford comments on
several open-access initiatives, including SPARC's Create Change,
PubSCIENCE, and the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and its
FAQ. Here are some responses to his comments on the BOAI FAQ.
Walt writes:
>I'm not sure why t
Belatedly checking the literature, I easily located printed
documentation for your statements. I refer
to Gillian Page et al., "Journal Publishing" CUP 1997, p.63 .
I find this discussion most enlightening, as I personally and I believe
many librarians have been assured otherwise by many publish
on Mon, 7 Oct 2002 Peter Suber wrote:
> In the October issue of _Cites & Insights_, Walt Crawford comments on
> several open-access initiatives, including SPARC's Create Change,
> PubSCIENCE, and the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and its
> FAQ. Here are some responses to his comments on
On the issue of spending and money it may be good to point out that even
if exactly the same amount of money were to be spent on a reverse business
model (pay for dissemination rather than for access) as is currently
being spent on subscriptions and access licences in the conventional
model, the be
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Jan Velterop (BioMed Central) wrote:
> On the issue of spending and money it may be good to point out that even
> if exactly the same amount of money were to be spent on a reverse business
> model (pay for dissemination rather than for access) as is currently
> being spent on s
