lettres.
Its scope went far beyond science, being managed
by historians. Despite its association with the
two academies, JOURNAL DES SCAVANS was first
published by Jean Cusson, a bookseller, from 1665
to 1714.
Albert Henderson
Pres., Chess Combination Inc
:
In response to Albert Henderson, let me stress the following points:
1. The trend I was referring to was the growing support of a growing
number of various granting agencies for financial support for the OA
business plan as exemplified by BioMed Central and by PLos;
This is a miniscule
,
Albert Henderson
Pres., Chess Combination Inc.
POB 2423 Bridgeport CT 06608-0423
a...@chessnic.com
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
on Tue, 10 Feb 2004 Jean-Claude =?iso-8859-1?q?Gu=E9don?=
jean.claude.gue...@umontreal.ca wrote:
In response to Albert Henderson, let me stress the following points:
1. The trend I was referring to was the growing support of a growing number of
various granting agencies for financial support
and in the statistics of income and expenditure.
Best wishes,
Albert Henderson
Pres., Chess Combination Inc.
POB 2423 Bridgeport CT 06608-0423
a...@chessnic.com
,
Albert Henderson
Pres., Chess Combination Inc.
POB 2423 Bridgeport CT 06608-0423
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1...@compuserve.com
. The cost of maintaining a subscriber list, on the other hand,
disappears if a journal is operated on an Open Access basis.
My point exactly. The service to readers disappears
right along with the cost.
Best wishes,
Albert Henderson
Pres., Chess Combination Inc.
POB
of
science for over a century has been the abundance
of public reports of discovery. It has been the job
of the journals to organize, present, and deliver
according to special interests of readers.
Best wishes,
Albert Henderson
Pres., Chess Combination Inc.
POB
quotations to make their
points. Quotations often involved copyrighted materials.
Best wishes,
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1...@compuserve.com
that the rights of fair use cannot be limited by contract. (It's
changing one word, but of course a major policy reversal).
One cannot really apply a limited amount of material, to claim fair
use, to the quotatation [or reproduction] of a picture, a short poem,
a letter, etc.
Albert Henderson
on Fri, 17 Jan 2003 Jan Velterop j...@biomedcentral.com read me wrong:
[ Reply to Albert Henderson on thread:
Re: Nature's vs. Science's Embargo Policy
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2633.html ]
The nice thing about input-paid open access as practised
and evaluate a rising tide that probably
includes unreviewed drafts and quackery.
Best wishes,
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1...@compuserve.com
they had published in the real sense.
Best wishes,
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1...@compuserve.com
.
.
.
.
while making claims of
excellence.
Best wishes,
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1...@compuserve.com
switches to outgoing articles, libraries
will be out of business and serials librarians will
be out on the street.
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1...@compuserve.com
. increased by exactly the same amount
that was ruthlessly cut from library spending.
In short, any savings from the use of technology will be claimed as
productivity by the lunatics who have taken over the asylum.
Best wishes,
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1
the
cancellation of more subscriptions.
Best wishes,
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1...@compuserve.com
!
Best wishes,
*figures from the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1...@compuserve.com
to boycott journals that don't
make their content free online after six months have actually followed
through on that threat, and few journals have changed their ways.
Best wishes,
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1...@compuserve.com
, heart disease, old age,
etc. While I don't think The Scientist and NYT are in the category of
breathless irresponsibility, it is clear that they and most preprint
readers are not equipped to evaluate research claims as thoroughly as
the editors of NEJM et al.
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING
, of course, a serious publicity element. Its
production manager in the 1960s was a friend of mine.
Its budget never depended on subscription income. As
such, no expense would be spared.
Best wishes,
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY
of it to a friend
who was interested in the same problem [Connections.
Boston: Little Brown. 1978. Reprint with new introduction
1995. ISBN 0-316-11672-6. p. 74]
Actually, I doubt Mersenne was the first any more than
Fermi ...
Best wishes,
Albert
of dissemination,
distribution, marketing, salesmanship, and whatever
else one might call the toils of publishing.
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1...@compuserve.com
expect to shelve this topic near astrology.
Best wishes,
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1...@compuserve.com
.
.
sponsored research. They
deprive library users of information generated by
the rest of the world only because they have
become skilled at academic 3-card Monte.
Albert Henderson
Pres., Chess Combination Inc.
POB 2423 Bridgeport CT 06608-0423
a...@chessnic.com
to studies of peer
review that actually shed light on the problem and
its solution.
Best wishes,
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1...@compuserve.com
would any professional librarian
or researcher support self-archived chaff??)
Private research universities, in particular,
have hoarded far more money than they need. Why
aren't we talking about spending some of it and
improving the quality of research and education???
Albert Henderson
Former
for this reason. What works in relatively small and
mathematically-oriented fields would stumble badle
elsewhere.
Albert Henderson
70244.1...@compuserve.com
past editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
On 19 Dec 2001 Arthur P. Smith apsm...@aps.org wrote:
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Albert Henderson wrote:
on Fri, 14 Dec 2001 Stevan Harnad har...@cogprints.soton.ac.uk wrote:
4. Whereas all refereed research should be fully accessible
on-line without cost to all would-be users worldwide
'archives' will
suffer.
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1...@compuserve.com
indefensible is utterly unavailing?
The challenge of dissemination has been very well documented. The
answer to the challenge is more effective journals and libraries, not
undermining them. It is more library spending, not a glib windfall,
that we need.
Thanks for your comments.
Albert Henderson
the capacity to plow through all the unrefined self-published
claims and comments? No one. This, the challenge of dissemination and
not the exhaustion of ideas (predicted by Holton, Horgan and others),
will be the end of science.
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994
.
If the work covered by the copyright agreement is substantially the same,
using the same language, title, references, etc., then the earlier version
is also covered. The exception would be passages deleted from the earlier
version.
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
agreement is substantially the same,
AH using the same language, title, references, etc., then the earlier version
AH is also covered. The exception would be passages deleted from the earlier
AH version.
sh Albert Henderson unfortunately continues to misunderstand the point
sh here, and I think I know
away. Although they are not paid in cash,
authors exchange their reports for recognition
and dissemination by editors that they value.
Thanks for asking. I hope I have cleared
up my position a little.
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY
on 21 Aug 2001 Steve Hitchcock sh...@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote:
At 16:46 20/08/01 -0400, Albert Henderson wrote:
I am not getting through. I should have asked,
Are there any valid reasons
to justify massive self-archiving?
Yes:
Improved access
of view.
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Albert Henderson wrote:
=
I am against self-archiving as a substitute for
libraries, library collections, and librarians.
Every qualified researcher is (or can be) a member
of a major research library.
=
There are 2,000,000
.
Moreover, it is Stevan who promises something for
nothing, based on myths and false premises, and is
therefore more Devil's Advocate than I could ever be.
Best wishes,
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1...@compuserve.com
on 1 Aug 2001 Stevan Harnad har...@coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Albert Henderson wrote:
sh virtually all of the self-archived preprints in arxiv are
sh submitted to refereed journals, revised... [etc]
http://opcit.eprints.org/tdb198/opcit
with the referees'
and applies to the science literature generally???
Best wishes,
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1...@compuserve.com
.
.
.
on 31 Jul 2001 Stevan Harnad har...@coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Albert Henderson wrote:
Why not produce hard evidence that Harnad's above claim
is true:
sh But virtually all of the self-archived preprints in arxiv are
sh submitted to refereed
.
Clearly, universities are hoarding financial assets while
letting intellectual concerns go to pot. There is nothing
hypothetical here.
Fortunately, defenders of copyright have saved the libraries
from complete destruction -- so far.
Albert Henderson
Former Editor
and books
purchased with grant money are under no obligation
to be shared.
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1...@compuserve.com
cut the library user out of the picture? This is
where reform is long overdue.
Albert Henderson
70244.1...@compuserve.com
a decade ago. No revolution
need follow. The essentials of copyright and the social
construction of science have not toppled. Nor will they.
[snip]
Have a nice weekend.
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1...@compuserve.com
.
.
.
on Tue, 26 Jun 2001 Christopher D. Green chri...@yorku.ca wrote:
Albert Henderson wrote:
Money is not the only token of value. One of the key
fallacies that burdens this forum is the failure to
recognize the economic exchanges that course through
@eprints.org
List-Post: goal@eprints.org
Date: 6/27/2001 11:48 AM
RE: Re: PostGutenberg Copyrights and Wrongs for Give-Away Research
At 01:19 PM 6/26/01 -0400, Albert Henderson wrote:
on 26 Jun 2001 Fytton Rowland j.f.rowl...@lboro.ac.uk wrote:
More seriously, taking Henderson's point
.
By the same token, the value of self-publishing is of lesser
value because it is unselective and offers little archival
promise in spite of the mis-use of the word by Harnad and
Gisparg.
Thanks for helping me clear this up.
Albert Henderson
70244.1
by major science
research libraries, more than any other group, that encouraged
science publishers to invest in digital dissemination.
Albert Henderson
70244.1...@compuserve.com
.
However, the problem that he perceived has been recognized
for decades as impairing the producitivity of research. It
continues to fester as many scientists, like bureaucrats,
prefer to work harder rather than smarter.
Albert Henderson
70244.1...@compuserve.com
continues to lack leadership.
Best wishes,
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1...@compuserve.com
.
.
.
of their libraries and flaccid
standards. Or, they have gone into industry where researchers
who need information fare better than faculty senates.
Best wishes,
Albert Henderson
70244.1...@compuserve.com
.
.
on 31 May 2001 Stevan Harnad har...@cogprints.soton.ac.uk wrote:
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Albert Henderson wrote:
[snip]
I am saying that after the transfer of copyright, the
article must be withdrawn unless the agreement provides
for continued publication
RE: Re: Zen response to e-Archiving Challenge
on 30 May 2001 Peter D. Junger jun...@samsara.law.cwru.edu wrote:
Albert Henderson writes:
: By providing the means to make copies of a work after transferring
: its copyright and without the consent of the new copyright
on 29 May 2001 Charles Oppenheim c.oppenh...@lboro.ac.uk claimed:
Albert Henderson stated:
First, the transfer of copyright covers all copies
before and after. Copyright does not differ much
from the cake you cannot eat and then have.
Second, AGU et al. v
that the most highly-cited LIS
journals are not refereed. Is that the work you had
in mind??
The application of Lotka's law by Price, which I
referred to above, would seem to stand.
Thanks for responding.
Albert Henderson
70244.1...@compuserve.com
on 25 May 2001 Stevan Harnad har...@coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote:
The posting by Albert Henderson, rather than illustrating fallacies
on the part of others, is merely illustrating the errors to which one is
prone when one has a conflict of interest (between what is really the
case, and what
. The
1960s were a golden age of science in the US partly because the growth
of spending on science was matched by spending on libraries.
Is 8 enough for now?
Albert Henderson
70244.1...@compuserve.com
-Forwarded Message-
List-Post: goal@eprints.org
List-Post: goal
- revolution -- which includes hardware
as well as software -- is a pretty good example of the
fertile contributions of private investment.
Best wishes,
Albert Henderson
70244.1...@compuserve.com
.
.
on Thu, 22 Mar 2001 Greg Kuperberg g...@math.ucdavis.edu wrote:
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 06:18:42PM -0500, Albert Henderson wrote:
In short, I would not be so sure that LANL's service is not
filled with rubbish.
It takes some chutzpah for an outsider to speculate that established,
self
to quacks who promise to treat everything from aching backs to
zodiacal destiny. LANL's most effective feature perhaps is its use of
XXX -- an insignia that keeps out children who are protected by
parental controls from Internet peril.
Best wishes,
Albert Henderson
70244.1...@compuserve.com
.
.
way.
Albert Henderson
70244.1...@compuserve.com
.
Weber, Ellen J., Michael L. Callaham, Robert L. Wears, Christopher Barton,
Gary Young. Unpublished research from a medical speciality meeting.
J A M A 280,3: 257-259. 1998.
=0=
Best wishes,
Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH
on Sat, 27 Jan 2001 Andrew Odlyzko a...@research.att.com wrote:
The recent exchanges, primarily between Albert Henderson and
Greg Kuperberg, with some additional remarks by David Goodman
and others, commingle two issues:
1. Ease of access: Electronical resources are much easier
to use
, the law has been disregarded by every administration
as I describe in Undermining Peer Review (SOCIETY 38,2:47-54.
Jan./Feb. 2001) while the President's Committee of Advisors on
Science Technology has been dominated by industrial interests.
Best wishes,
Albert
/her time
and energy?
Albert Henderson
70244.1...@compuserve.com
on Thu, 25 Jan 2001 Greg Kuperberg g...@math.ucdavis.edu wrote:
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:50:42AM -0500, Albert Henderson wrote:
You have my sympathy.
Thanks but I don't need it. I don't think that the university is
short-changing me. My access to math research is as good as it ever
of kilowords per dollar has become a dark joke.
I have been unable to get any librarian to admit
to using kilowords per dollar as an acquisitions tool.
Albert Henderson
Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1
disease
(JASIS. 1983. 34:181-191) It was not long after that industry
termed the phenomenon the Productivity Paradox.
Albert Henderson
Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1...@compuserve.com
for reading my text and for your comments.
Albert Henderson
Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1...@compuserve.com
.
.
.
:on Fri, 15 Sep 2000 Ken Rouse kro...@library.wisc.edu relied on
many unfounded assumptions when he wrote
In a recent communication (9-11-00) Albert Henderson defended the role of
traditional print publishers as the guarantors of quality control. In so
doing he did acknowledge
collegial community of research is falling apart
over money squabbles. Not the researchers, of course.
The managers are responsible. Or better, irresponsible!
What happened to quality and productivity in research and
education?
[snip]
Albert Henderson
Editor
digitally, I would be
more concerned about informing patrons of richer
resources available only on paper.
Albert Henderson
Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1...@compuserve.com
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reprints at one end
of the spectrum and notes and multiple-address letters at
the other. (p. 1-2)
The NIH Information Exchange Groups experiment 1961-66 never released a
final report, to the best of my knowledge.
So you see little has changed in all this time.
Albert Henderson
phenomenon or problem ...
Second, the rapid growth of IEG in the last two
years has now reached the threshold limit for
the NIH facilities ...
Albert Henderson
Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1...@compuserve.com
-archiving model.
Albert Henderson
Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
70244.1...@compuserve.com
.
.
of their problems. Others join the bureaucracy.
Just look, for instance at the emasculated standards for
libraries published by the ACRL itself -- revised to eliminate
any objective measure of library quality..
Albert Henderson
Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY
70244.1...@compuserve.com
.
.
.
by the
National Science Board to create tables for
SCIENCE ENGINEERING INDICATORS and ask what it
in the world it is supposed to indicate. Or see
how the government has run NTIS into the ground.
Albert Henderson
Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY
70244.1...@compuserve.com
.
.
.
A
276:637-639. 1996) It also implies referees must fly by the seat of
their pants.
Heaping praise on a mediocre excuse for an information service
does no service to the biomedical community, consumers of
health care, and sponsors of research.
[snip]
Albert Henderson wrote:
[snip
on 5 Apr 2000 Stevan Harnad har...@coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote:
[snip]
And Floyd Bloom (and Albert Henderson, who apparently like to quote
one another) have been answered, both in this Forum, and in print:
Henderson/Bloom/Henderson:
It may be instructive to recall an earlier
pattern that shows no sign of the S-curve leveling
off that was forecast by Derek de Solla Price and others.
Best wishes,
Albert Henderson
Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY
70244.1...@compuserve.com
.
.
.
.
on 24 Sep 1999 Katherine Porter por...@library.vanderbilt.edu wrote:
From: Albert Henderson 70244.1...@compuserve.com
Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY
In the robust economy over the recent years, there was
no urgency to containing library spending. Yet so many
librarians have
over the objections of
faculty and faculty senates. They run their financial
goals like a business, with grudging production of
knowledge. What happened to the lux et veritas mission
of research, education, and public service?
Albert Henderson
Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY
70244.1
to
LANL suggests only that universities are willing to sacrifice small fry
physics as bait for a big kill in the life and social sciences.
Albert Henderson
Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY
70244.1...@compuserve.com
.
Albert Henderson
Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY
70244.1...@compuserve.com
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== Following are my comments, in two parts, ==
== exactly as submitted to NIH ==
FROM: Albert Henderson, Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH
QUARTERLY 70244.1...@compuserve.com
We share a vision of effective science using the rapid
communication features
innumerate calculation in print.
In the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook, David L Goodstein
demonstrates his familiarity with Price's first idea but not his later
writing. (1995)
Yale is still printing and selling the error. Why not?
It gives critics and scholars something to debate.
Albert
want to take a close
look at who is disbursing the page charge payments you'd like to
hang your new hat on. What will they do once they have squeezed
every nickle out of the libraries?
Albert Henderson, Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY
70244.1...@compuserve.com
agencies exercise their influence on policy and
their power of accreditation, it will be the death of knowledge.
Albert Henderson, Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY
70244.1...@compuserve.com
on 16 Sep 1998 Mark Doyle do...@aps.org wrote:
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Albert Henderson noblestat...@compuserve.com wrote:
[snip]
The cost of
technology for accessing xxx is extremely minimal, less than subscribing to
a single year many
provosts and presidents would have to give up some of the
advantages they gained in the last 30 years. But then I wonder what
administrators contribute to the effectiveness of instruction and
research -- compared to good library collections.
Albert Henderson, Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY
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