Re: Is there any need for a universal Open Access label?

2003-12-02 Thread Helene Bosc
At 19:56 01/12/03 +, Stevan Harnad a ecrit: It would be a much more useful and universal solution to incorporate the criteria for being FIPATRAFTO into the OAI archives: An article is FIPATRAFTO if the OAI archive in which it is archived contains its full-text (not just its metadata), it is

Re: Is there any need for a universal Open Access label?

2003-12-02 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Helene Bosc wrote: May I suggest the abbreviated acronym FIPA instead of FIPA-TRAFTO? The acronym for FREE, IMMEDIATE, PERMANENT ACCESS TO REFEREED-ARTICLE FULL-TEXTS ONLINE was only meant tongue-in-cheek (as I assume Helene's comment was too). your definition of

December issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

2003-12-02 Thread Peter Suber
December issue http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/12-02-03.htm Subscription info, discussion forum http://www.arl.org/sparc/soa/index.html Subscriptions are free, and the archive of back issues is open to non-subscribers http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm

Open Access Side-Event at World Summit on the Information Society

2003-12-02 Thread Subbiah Arunachalam
Here is a press release on a meeting to be held in Geneva on 11 December 2003. World Summit on the Information Society http://www.itu.int/wsis/ Open Access Side-Event: http://www.wsis-online.net/smsi/classes/smsi/events/smsi-events-85268/event-view?referer=/event/events-list?showall=t A

Open Access Provision Policy

2003-12-02 Thread Stevan Harnad
The following excellent article from the Open Access Newsletter is by Peter Suber. It is about what we should probably begin to call Open Access Provision Policy for Universities and Research Funders. I have added some supplementary references at the end. -- SH [By: Peter Suber

InterAcademy Panel on International Issues Mexico, 1-5 December 2003

2003-12-02 Thread Subbiah Arunachalam
To all participants of the InterAcademy Panel on International Issues meeting taking place in Mexico, 1-5 December 2003 http://www4.nas.edu/IAP/IAPhome.nsf/weblinks/MGLY-4VQVBB Dear Academicians: Scientists around the world are greatly concerned about the increasing difficulties we face in the