Re: Open Access Books

2007-12-07 Thread Thierry Chanier
Dear Richard Poynder, Thank you for raising the issue about books and giving the standpoint of the publisher Vedran Kordic. I do not think this a new problem and the link to OA is not very obvious to me. Let us first ignore the fact that OA is concerned. - The publisher is a very specialized on

Misunderstanding about "OA in Europe suffers a setback" ?

2007-12-07 Thread Thierry Chanier
Dear all, After reading N Miradon's message (recalled hereafter), I thought "a battle had been lost". After looking some more on the Internet and asking colleagues, I learned that an event happened in November . Here is the English title : "Council Conclusions on scientific information in the dig

Re: Misunderstanding about "OA in Europe suffers a setback" ?

2007-12-07 Thread Verkroost, H. (Hillebrand)
I believe this is the English version of the document. http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressData/en/intm/97236.pdf Mr. Hillebrand Verkroost Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) Unit ECN Policy Stu

Cost of running an OA repository

2007-12-07 Thread N . Miradon
Does anyone have a good estimate of the real financial cost of running an OA repository? On this list, Hélène Bosc has recently told some of the organisational obstacles in setting up an E-prints repository [1] - but she didnt mention finance as an issue. Also on this list, Dirk Pieper [2] drew