On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, [identity deleted] wrote:
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Carole Brault wrote:
I still have to verify : did the professor keep the pre-print of these
articles ? I would say NO.
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Stevan Harnad wrote
No you don't have to verify it. The author just has to
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, John Unsworth wrote:
I thought you'd be interested in this--a talk I gave earlier today to
deans (of arts and sciences) and provosts from CIC/Big Ten
universities, in Chicago.
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/CICsummit.htm
My old friend John Unsworth's proposals to
I don't disagree on Stevan's point about peer review, below, and
Stevan, I'd be grateful if you'd point out to me, offline, exactly
where the conflation appears, so I can correct it.
John
On Dec 3, 2003, at 9:15 PM, Stevan Harnad wrote:
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, John Unsworth wrote:
I thought
Mark McCabe has produced some excellent and thorough reports on journal
publisher monopolies that are best read in detail. I'm sure his study on
open access models vs subscription-based models will be just as essential
reading. The preview below, however, leaves some gaps that I hope will be
Stevan Harnad writes:
If they want to ask the rest, fine; but better still, do as the far
more sensible physicists did: self-archive, and decide whether or not to
withdraw only if and when someone ever asks!
EXACTLY. Stevan you need to emphasize this point more. Although
I am certainly not a
This is to announce that -- in order to reflect what it has actually
evolved into across the years -- the American Scientist September98
Forum is now officially renamed the
American Scientist Open Access Forum.
All old emails and URLs will continue to work.
Best wishes,
Stevan Harnad
NOTE: A
It is my great pleasure and honour to announce that India's and the
Developing World's great advocate for open access, Subbiah Arunachalam
has become Co-Director of the CogPrints Archive
http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
Professor Arunachalam will be specifically in charge of the
growing Journals
I agree with Stevan's strategy in theory. The problem is that this is
not something provosts and library directors would support as part of the
institutional repository policy. If we want institutional legitimization
of eprint archives, we will also have to live with added red tapes and
sh better still, do as the far more sensible physicists did:
sh self-archive, and decide whether or not to withdraw
sh only if and when someone ever asks!
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Leslie Chan wrote:
this is not something provosts and library directors would support
Provosts need merely
