Yahoo and Open Access

2004-03-08 Thread Sumir Meghani
Hi Stevan, I just tried to post a message to the list. I have closely been following your work over the past several months and find it fascinating. I'd love to hear your thoughts on how Yahoo! can potentially help in encouraging open-access. I work in the Yahoo! Search group and one of our

Re: Request for permission

2004-03-08 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Hamaker, Chuck wrote: I'd like to use this post as a handout on e-journals for a session of a statewide conference for faculty from the University of North Carolina systems. Will you grant that permission? Chuck, All materials on the American Scientist Open Access Forum

Re: Yahoo and Open Access

2004-03-08 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Sumir Meghani wrote: I'd love to hear your thoughts on how Yahoo! can potentially help in encouraging open-access. http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040302/25391_1.html The Open Access (OA) movement is focussed specifically on articles in peer-reviewed journals. Most OA content is

Who Needs Open Access, and Why?

2004-03-08 Thread Stevan Harnad
Sally Morris chief-e...@alpsp.org wrote: Curiously, there seems to be remarkably little evidence of author demand for Open Access publication according to all the studies I have seen. Well, there's remarkably little evidence only if one ignores the fact that authors have been and are

Re: American Scientist Open Access Forum: 2004 email and URL updates

2004-03-08 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, [identity deleted] wrote: Dear Stevan, I have a graduate (master's) student who wishes to do her dissertation about pricing policies in electronic publishing. It would be helpful to her to be able to access the American Scientist Open Access Forum - I'm not sure if it

SciDev.Net's Special Section on Open access and Scientific Publishing

2004-03-08 Thread Peter Suber
[Forwarding from SciDev.Net. --Peter.] The Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net) is pleased to announce its new quick guide on science publishing (www.scidev.net/scipub). Concentrating on the issue of how developing-country scientists can access the latest scientific research, the

Re: Central versus institutional self-archiving

2004-03-08 Thread Leslie Chan
on 3/7/04 4:52 AM, Stevan Harnad at har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote: Central versus institutional self-archiving http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3208.html Depositing articles -- by authors who are immediately ready to deposit them today -- into existing Central Archives

Re: Central versus institutional self-archiving

2004-03-08 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Leslie Chan wrote: most archives are non-existent or near-empty. So filling the existing archives, whether central or not, should be the priority... where the articles sit really doesn't matter. Agreed! Institutions will or will not set up archives based on their own