See also:
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higherfeedback/story/0,11056,1364556,00.html
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5705/2187b
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/329/7475/1122-a#85624
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, alison.macdon...@britishlibrary.net wrote:
I thought readers of
On 11/8/04 Ben Winkley, in UK Govt Unconvinced On Open Access To
Science Research http://online.wsj.com/search#BT_CO_20041108_002913
wrote:
The U.K. government said Monday it isn't convinced by a proposal
to allow open access to scientific research on the Internet...
Under the
Stevan says that the government response to the select committee was based
on a misunderstanding, will be rectified and therefore, in effect, changes
nothing. This raises the question, why were Ian Gibson and the select cttee
so angry with the response? I can't second-guess the politics of
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Drubbing Peter to Pay Paul (2004)
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Prior AmSci Threads:
Self-Archiving vs. Self-Publishing FAQ (2000)
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Rick Anderson wrote:
Stevan Harnad wrote:
The only major recommendation of the UK Select Committee
was to mandate OA self-archiving. Yet no one (MPs, press,
publishers or librarians) can stop going on and on about OA publishing,
which was *not* what was being
I was not surprised by the UK Government's response. I was always sceptical
about the Select C'tee's report's likely impact. Governments have a long
and dishonourable history of ignoring Select Committees! Looking at it from
a Government point of view, why on earth should it get interested in a
Charles Oppenheim wrote:
[W]hat annoys me is that the Government conflates OA journals with OA
repositories and I do think it needs educating on that matter. It would
have been so much better if the Gov't had encouraged Universities and
the like to set repositories up and encouraged funding
See also:
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higherfeedback/story/0,11056,1364556,00.html
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5705/2187b
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/329/7475/1122-a#85624
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, David Goodman wrote:
Charles Oppenheim wrote:
[W]hat annoys
For those who are newer to OA, here is a simpler explanation of what
Stevan Harnad has already said in more detail:
Distribution is not the same as publication.
The academic publishing process involves careful selection of articles,
which are then reviewed by expert peer reviewers and
Another little step ahead...
International conference: Information as Public
Domain: Access through Libraries
http://www.nlr.ru:8101/tus/271004/index_e.html
http://www.nlr.ru:8101/tus/271004/index.html
International conference
Information as Public Domain: Access through
Libraries
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