Prior AmSci Topic Thread:
The self-archiving sweepstakes (began February 7, 2003)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2662.html
Dear Colleagues,
It would be nice to get an estimate of the growth of the number of Open
Access scientific documents (S. Harnad: immediate,
In response to a comment by David Prosser, Jan Szczepanski said:
I would say that You are absolutely wrong. We don't do the things you
say we do. I don't think you, a director at SPARC or I, a librarian from
Sweden has that power. NIH could be included in we, that's power,
bureaucratic
Are you forgetting Scotland? All of the Universities have signed up
to OA there. The only issue is whether Scotland is a country, a state
or a nation. I used to know once :-)
--
Les
PS I think a country is geographically defined, so Scotland may well
count.
On 14 May 2005, at 23:09, Stevan
Instead of relating it to total population, one might want to express
the number of archives in relation to the number of people in
tertiary enrollment (i.e. after secondary school). That may give a
somewhat more relevant picture, if we assume that tertiary enrollment
has more of a relationship
Stevan Harnad has commented extensively on my The Spectrum
of E-Journal Access Policies: Open to Restricted Access
DigitalKoans posting. Thanks for doing so, Stevan. Here are
my thoughts on your comments.
Prior AmSci Topic Thread:
Free Access vs. Open Access (began August, 2003)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2956.html
OA: NO CUES FROM THE P'S
Stevan Harnad
For those without the time to work through the details, the punch-line is
this:
What
