From SOAF. See also Peter Suber's splendid, measured reply in
OA News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007_08_19_fosblogarchive.html#3651797581
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(more to come in Peter's September SOAN).
Exercise: See whether PRISM has managed to come up with ny substantive
point that has not a
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Sandy Thatcher wrote:
> For a scientist, Stevan, you sometimes make some astonishingly broad
> generalizations. E.g., in response to Rick Anderson you wrote:
>
> At 4:18 PM -0400 8/15/07, Stevan Harnad wrote:
> > (b) Every single one of those articles (without exception, and
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Velterop, Jan, Springer UK wrote:
> Peter Hirtle is right. Since a long time I have held the view
> that -- at least in the realm of peer-reviewed research
> publication -- copyright, particularly its transfer from author
> to publisher, is essentially used as a proxy for mone
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Sandy Thatcher wrote:
> I actually agree, too, that the practice of an author sharing a paper with
> another researcher who requests it, one request at a time, should be
> considered as fair use-and should be allowed by all publishers anyway. But
> Stevan doesn't tell us what
