Re: Browsing OA archives and IRs

2008-05-27 Thread Steve Hitchcock
The OA impact bibliography has a section on Web tools for measuring impact http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html#tools Yes, there are citation search and impact services for OA archives and IRs, but none that are both focussed exclusively on such repositories and (probably)

Re: The cost of peer review and electronic distribution of scholarly journals

2008-05-27 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Thu, 22 May 2008, Talat Chaudhri [tac] wrote: Gold OA [1] isn't popular and, I suspect, [2] never will be. You are right about the first point [1], and the reason is partly the current price of Gold OA and partly the fact that Gold OA is not yet necessary, because Green OA (self-archiving)

Fwd: [Elis-editors] JacsX writes about E-LIS in Online magazine

2008-05-27 Thread Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza
[from E-LIS editors' list] --- Tomas Baiget bai...@sarenet.es wrote: From: Tomas Baiget bai...@sarenet.es To: E-LIS editors list elis-edit...@lists.openlib.org Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 13:56:41 +0200 Subject: [Elis-editors] Jacsó writes about E-LIS Péter Jacsó, University of Hawaii,

Re: OA Primer for the Perplexed

2008-05-27 Thread Talat Chaudhri [tac]
All,   The argument made by Stevan Harnad in the post below is marred by the repeated assertion that all authors want OA1 (his term, i.e. what we have hitherto been asked to call Green OA self-archiving). The experience of a repository manager quickly shows that many academics do not want it,