Re: The Special Case of Law Reviews

2003-11-21 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Terry Martin wrote: sh It would be nice to see the actual figures on Law Reviews' self-archiving sh policies, though. Does anyone actually have the data -- or a list of the email sh addresses that I could send a query to? I'll save you the trouble. As incoming chair of the

Re: Zeno's Paradox and the Road to the Optimal/Inevitable

2003-11-21 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, [identity deleted] wrote: I've written to you a couple of times asking for permission to forward posts to my serials class list, and you very graciously granted me the OK. Now I have a question. I know that in reality things are not so simple as the one biggest issue, yet

Re: The Special Case of Law Reviews

2003-11-21 Thread Steve Hitchcock
Dan Hunter may be merely asking the California Law Review to become 'green', which is to formally support author self-archiving, but if so perhaps it could be put more succinctly and more practically. As it stands, there seem to be some obvious faults in the argument. First Dan Hunter says In

Re: The Special Case of Law Reviews

2003-11-21 Thread Michael Carroll
Hi Stevan, I've been following the open access discussion for a while now and may be writing a law review article on the subject in the not-too-distant future. I'll likely be reiterating some of the points you've been making in a number of fora. In the meantime, the answer to your question is

Re: The Special Case of Law Reviews

2003-11-21 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Michael Carroll wrote: I've been following the open access discussion for a while now and may be writing a law review article on the subject in the not-too-distant future. I'll likely be reiterating some of the points you've been making in a number of fora.

Re: The Special Case of Law Reviews

2003-11-21 Thread Dan Hunter
The law professor gets it. The (untenured) law professor just doesn't have the bargaining position to negotiate a change in the contract when the elite journals (that I rely on to get tenure) have explicitly said that they won't negotiate contract terms and that if I don't like it I can piss

Re: The Special Case of Law Reviews

2003-11-21 Thread Stevan Harnad
I have to agree 100% with Dan Hunter here, rather than with my institutional colleague and friend, Steve Hitchcock: Open access is *not* about individual authors somehow having to fix their copyright agreements with their publishers. If that were the only road, or the main road to open access, I