Re: UK Select Committee Inquiry into Scientific Publication

2004-07-14 Thread Charles Oppenheim
My apologies. They must have recently changed the rules about Government obligation to respond. Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim Department of Information Science Loughborough University Loughborough Leics LE11 3TU 01509-223065 (fax) 01509-223053 - Original Message - From: "Terry ,Mr

Re: UK Select Committee Inquiry into Scientific Publication

2004-07-14 Thread Terry ,Mr Robert
The comments posted previously about the Government's obligation regarding the imminent House of Commons report on scientific publishing are not quite correct and I have just confirmed this with the Clerk of the Committee. The Government is obliged to reply, usually within 2 months, although bec

Re: How many journals sell authors Open Access by the article?

2004-07-14 Thread Stevan Harnad
This letter appeared in today's Independent (UK): http://argument.independent.co.uk/letters/story.jsp?story=540624 Open access Sir: Open Access (OA) is a simple proposition, but it is commonly misunderstood. Your report (Business, 7 July) suggests that the new "open choice" policy of journal pub

RE: Mandating OA around the corner?

2004-07-14 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, David Goodman wrote: > Stevan, I do not think it possible to "disentangle the serials budget > problem from the access/impact problem." It is most definitely possible -- and necessary -- to disentangle them. What is linking them inextricably in what you write below is only yo