At 03:16 PM 12/31/2003 +, Stevan Harnad wrote:
The discussion of the Free/Open Access distinction appears to
be growing. I see that Peter Suber has posted a reply to the
SOAF list, which I will re-post to the Amsci Forum in a moment
so I can reply to it on both lists after I have replied to
Stevan-
You say:
Am I missing something? It seems to me that we have all the access and
use we could possibly want here, without going so far as to stipulate what
sort of velum it should appear on before declaring the access truly open!
Yes, you are missing something. You seem intent on
-Original Message-
From: Stevan Harnad har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk
List-Post: goal@eprints.org
List-Post: goal@eprints.org
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:44:29 +
Subject: Re: Free Access vs. Open Access
All would-be users need to be able to read, download, store,
print-off and
Dear Prof. Harnad
It is over a year back, in October 2002, that we set up the eprint archives
of Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, India
(http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/) using eprints.org software. From the project
RoMEO we have also extracted and provided information on our archive
India, the sleeping giant, wakes up! The Indian
Institute of Science has an institutional archive for
well over a year now. It is run well although it had
not attracted many faculty and students to deposit
their papers. But steps are now promised to improve
thesituation. Other leading higher
NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@amsci.org
Dear Amsci Forum Participants:
First, Happy New Year!
The new year has brought with it a change in the website URL as well as
the email address for posting to the American Scientist Open Access
Forum.
The message below from
In the following, I respond to multiple postings: (a) one by Peter Suber,
(b) three by Mike Eisen, and (c) one by Seth Johnson.
Happy New Year to All! S.H.
--
(a) Peter Suber wrote:
Self-archiving is a true open-access strategy, not merely a free-access
strategy. Authors
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, [identity deleted] wrote:
In your many contributions about open-access publishing, many
references are made to the annual publication of 2.5 million scientific
articles, but what is happening to the contents of hard-copy journals
of the past?
You are I assume referring
