Re: The archival status of archived papers

2002-12-03 Thread Christopher Gutteridge
I'm considering adding version control to the files. This is going to be needed for the oft discussed j-prints (eprints with peer review) I think for archives like ECS letting the author un-deposit then resubmit is probably OK, but bad for cogprints. I'm considering adding it as an *option* which

Re: Online Self-Archiving: Distinguishing the Optimal from the Optional

2002-12-03 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Bob Parks wrote: My own thought has been that there will be preprint archiving but little change in the journals -- as argued in: The Faustian Grip of Academic Publishing http://econwpa.wustl.edu/ewp-mic/0202005.abs Bob, if I'm not mistaken, most of your predictions in

Re: Survey of Users and Non-Users of Eprint Archives

2002-12-03 Thread Stevan Harnad
Here is an other survey of current archive usage. (It would be especially interesting to track changes in time these days, to estimate the rate at which progress is occurring.) Ibironke Lawal, Scholarly Communication: The Use and Non-Use of E-Print Archives for the Dissemination of Scientific

Re: Survey of Users and Non-Users of Eprint Archives

2002-12-03 Thread Steve Hitchcock
At 14:08 03/12/02 +, you wrote: Here is an other survey of current archive usage. (It would be especially interesting to track changes in time these days, to estimate the rate at which progress is occurring.) Ibironke Lawal, Scholarly Communication: The Use and Non-Use of E-Print Archives

Re: The archival status of archived papers

2002-12-03 Thread Bob Parks
Stevan Harnad writes: It cuts both ways. Yes, authors should not start archiving willy-nilly every raw draft and every afterthought. But they should not feel The word DRAFT implies correction and updates. In economics, where working papers and revisions of them are extremely common, one would

Re: The archival status of archived papers

2002-12-03 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Bob Parks wrote: Stevan Harnad writes: sh It cuts both ways. Yes, authors should not start archiving willy-nilly sh every raw draft and every afterthought. The word DRAFT implies correction and updates. In economics, where working papers and revisions of them are