Friends:
Stevan Harnad suggests how donor agencies can facilitate setting up
interoperable institutional archives. We can adopt his suggestions for
setting up such archives in India. Of course, one need not trouble the
Southampton team for help; NCSI at IISc has all the expertise and experience
Dear Stevan,
In the Brody et al. studies, the effect of OA in enhancing visibility and use
for many of the earlier papers studied, lasts for much longer than two years. I
refer you to your own group's data and Brody's graphs.
The citation half life for almost all journals even in the
David, all I can do is repeat that you are trying to count your
citation-chickens before the OA-eggs are even laid; and the counting
exercise delays the egg-laying even further! Right now, I believe it
is a huge strategic mistake to focus time and energy on worrying about
the longevity of still
How does this follow?
...the very presence of all that OA content will be the single strongest driver
for preservation.
Brian Simboli
[MODERATOR'S NOTE: In the interest of speed and traffic control,
here is my reply: Because the incentive to preserve contents that
exist is far
At 17:05 03/10/04 +0100, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
For part of the authors' submission - the supplemental data - it is worse.
I know that for some of this list only full text is published but for
many scientists the supplemental data (without which the paper is not
allowed to be published) is at
As I detect signs of a trend toward tumbling into intemperateness if the
exchange continues, I will not reply to the two postings by Jean-Claude Guedon
that follow this one. The attentive reader can, I think, draw his own
conclusions from what has already been said. The rest would just have
been
Responses below.
On Sun October 3 2004 10:51 am, Stevan Harnad wrote:
On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Jean-Claude Guedon wrote:
OSI is not subsidizing OA journals. It is subsidizing authors from
disadvantaged countries and institutions so that they may submit to OA
journals. OSI has also supported the
Here we go...
On Sat October 2 2004 08:16 am, Stevan Harnad wrote:
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, [identity deleted] wrote:
While OAI compliance is a sine qua non condition of some measure of
inter-operability, it does not (yet?) ensure the kind of ease of
retrieval that other forms of archiving can
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, [identity deleted] wrote:
While OAI compliance is a sine qua non condition of some measure of
inter-operability, it does not (yet?) ensure the kind of ease of
retrieval that other forms of archiving can provide, including some
form of central archiving.
Ease-of-retrieval
greetings -
Stevan Harnad wrote:
Perhaps it would be a good idea if OSI subsidized authors from
disadvantaged countries and institutions to provide OA to their
articles by
self-archiving them in their institutional archives: Then the subsidy
might
generate more OA articles from the same author
David Goodman wrote:
I think it would be very useful to everyone if you could post the cost
figures you refer to here, giving the detail upon which it is based so
that other places could adapt it to their size and needs.
(I) First, determine the start-up cost of creating an institutional
There are (at least) three, interrelated, problems:
(1) Not every researcher deposits his or her research articles in an
open repository/archive;
(2) Not every institution has an open repository/archive;
(3) Not every funder mandates -- or even encourages -- open access
publishing and/or open
Let me nevertheless correct your misreadings of my position.
On Mon October 4 2004 07:55 am, Stevan Harnad wrote:
As I detect signs of a trend toward tumbling into intemperateness if the
exchange continues, I will not reply to the two postings by Jean-Claude
Guedon that follow this one. The
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