Message from Declan Butler, Nature

2004-03-05 Thread Peter Suber
[Forwarding from Declan Butler at Nature. --Peter.] Nature is to run a web focus on access to the literature from mid March to mid-May. I would very much like to link from the focus to as many position papers that people have made public on this. In particular, many institutions have worked rec

Re: On the Need to Take Both Roads to Open Access

2004-03-05 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Frederick Friend wrote: > JISC in the UK is putting as much effort into supporting institutional > repositories as it is into open access journals... > The results of an author survey funded by JISC and OSI to be published > on the JISC web-site next week show that a low percen

Re: On the Need to Take Both Roads to Open Access

2004-03-05 Thread Frederick Friend
Paul M Gherman (Vanderbilt University) wrote: Re: PALS report and conference on Institutional Repositories http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3603.html > Institutional Repositories (IR's) are gaining good traction at many > research universities, and I think it is time for the Open

Re: PALS report and conference on Institutional Repositories

2004-03-05 Thread Mark Ware
Colin Thank you for this, very interesting. I was sorry to miss the OAI workshop (other work commitments precluded) it looks to have been a useful event. My report was never intended to be a fully comprehensive piece of work - it was commissioned as "pathfinder" research for a conference, i.e. as

Re: PALS report and conference on Institutional Repositories

2004-03-05 Thread Colin Steele
Mark In relation to your very useful and clear report on repositories, http://www.palsgroup.org.uk/palsweb/palsweb.nsf/79b0d164e01a6cb880256ae0004a0e34/8c43ce800a9c67cd80256e370051e88a?OpenDocument you might be interested in the talk I gave recently in Geneva at the OAI conference - we would argue