Re: Stepping down as Moderator of American Scientist Open Access Forum

2011-11-25 Thread Ept
Dear Stevan,   I do hope this is not a result of an unnecessarily rude message from Ros (who she?). No-one of any consequence feels you have outlived your role, which in my opinion has been instrumental in getting the OA message across and patiently clarifying misunderstandings. Truly without this

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2011-11-25 Thread Rushen SHI
Hi Stevan, I have a question for you. I am looking for readers for Elena Koulaguina's phd thesis. I am required to find a prof from our dept, which is not easy since no one else works on research that is close to the kind of work that I do. But you are knowledgeable in psycholinguistics and

Stepping down as Moderator of American Scientist Open Access Forum

2011-11-25 Thread Stevan Harnad
Dear All, In September 2011 the AmSci Open Access Forum went into its 14th year. I think I have been moderating the Forum long enough, and so I'm stepping down as moderator, effective the end of December. This leaves time for the Forum to decide (1) whether to continue (or the other two OA lis

Re: 60% of Journals Allow Immediate Archiving of Peer-Reviewed Articles - but it gets much much better...

2011-11-25 Thread Stevan Harnad
Dana Roth asked:   Stevan: would it be helpful to have a 'hall of shame' where titles of journals that do not allow self-archiving are 'outed'?? Dana, (1) I agree completely with Peter Millington (below), that SHERPA/Romeo already implicitly contains the "hall of shame" (consisting

Re: 60% of Journals Allow Immediate Archiving of Peer-Reviewed Articles - but it gets much much better...

2011-11-25 Thread Peter Millington
Dana Be careful what you ask for. A list of the ~5% of journals that do not allow any form of open access archiving whatsoever would contain getting on for 1,000 titles. I think that a list of such a size would lose its impact. Please note that SHERPA/RoMEO is conservative when assigning colour

Re: Signing off AmSci

2011-11-25 Thread Stevan Harnad
Dear Rosalind, I'm very sorry you're leaving the AmSci Forum, and especially sorry you're leaving with the feelings you have. I am grateful for your having launched the Forum when you were at AmSci, for selecting me to moderate it, and for all your support througout the many ensuing years; this ra

EPrints REF2014 plugin

2011-11-25 Thread Alma Swan
*Apologies for cross-posting*   The newly-developed REF2014 plugin for the widely-used EPrints repository software is entering its live testing phase.  Five universities that currently have their repositories hosted by EPrints Services will be participating in the testing process.  The goal is

Signing off

2011-11-25 Thread Rosalind Reid
Hello Stevan, Just a farewell note. I'm finally leaving the AmSci Forum list because I have grown so tired of watching you ride your own particular hobbyhorse that I simply have to leave the room. Below is the message that was the last straw. You made it crisply clear, for the nth time, that yo

Re: 60% of Journals Allow Immediate Archiving of Peer-Reviewed Articles - but it gets much much better...

2011-11-25 Thread Dana Roth
Stevan: would it be helpful to have a 'hall of shame' where titles of journals that do not allow self-archiving are 'outed'?? Dana L. Roth Millikan Library / Caltech 1-32 1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125 626-395-6423 fax 626-792-7540 dzr...@library.caltech.edu http://library.caltech.ed