Re: The self-archiving sweepstakes

2005-05-16 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
data after its apparent last update of 2004. A synoptic website on OA-information collected (in German) you find at http://zugang-zum-wissen.de Eberhard Hilf . Eberhard R. Hilf, Dr. Prof.; CEO (Geschaeftsfuehrer) Institute for Science Networking

Harvesting from the many OA servers that are not yet OAI-compliant

2005-04-29 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
found in google, being phoned and emailed by colleagues, etc. We are hence following Stevan's motto: don't sit waiting: just go ahead and do. Eberhard R. Hilf, Dr. Prof.; CEO Institute for Science Networking Oldenburg GmbH an der Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Ammerlaender Heerstr.121; D

Re: Berlin-3 Open Access Conference, Southampton, Feb 28 - Mar 1 2005

2005-02-10 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
for the source code); which then the author puts on his webserver. so, the only thing left, is, that authors say either yes or a enforced by their University to do so. Ebs . Eberhard R. Hilf, Dr. Prof.; CEO (Geschaeftsfuehrer) Institute for Science

Re: June 27 2004: The 1994 Subversive Proposal at 10

2004-09-14 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
This is to add to Stevan's very thoughtful reminiscences some of our own experiences in physics concerning relations with publishers and OA. In 1994 there were several workshops with participants from different countries, organized by either Frank Laloe (CNRS, Univ. Paris Sud) or myself in

Re: The self-archiving sweepstakes

2004-09-10 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
the process! Yours Eberhard R. Hilf h...@isn-oldenburg.de Initial AmSci Topic Thread: The self-archiving sweepstakes http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2662.html

Re: The Green Road to Open Access: A Leveraged Transition

2004-03-30 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
, but they would miss the real added-value services. Eberhard R. Hilf, Dr. Prof.; CEO (Geschaeftsfuehrer) Institute for Science Networking Oldenburg GmbH an der Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Ammerlaender Heerstr.121; D-26129 Oldenburg ISN-home: http://www.isn-oldenburg.de/ homepage: http://isn

Re: The Green Road to Open Access: A Leveraged Transition

2004-03-30 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
. Eberhard R. Hilf, Dr. Prof.; CEO (Geschaeftsfuehrer) Institute for Science Networking Oldenburg GmbH an der Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Ammerlaender Heerstr.121; D-26129 Oldenburg ISN-home: http://www.isn-oldenburg.de/ homepage: http://isn-oldenburg.de/~hilf email : h...@isn

Re: Open Access Does Not require Republishing and Reprinting Rights

2004-01-20 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
to 2002 (2.33 Billion $), subscription plus 7% per year, and mentions self-archiving as a way out. Ebs . Eberhard R. Hilf, Dr. Prof.; CEO (Geschaeftsfuehrer) Institute for Science Networking Oldenburg GmbH an der Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet

Dublin Core Checker for OAI Archives

2003-12-19 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
Dear Colleagues, To synchronize the OAi efforts at various places it may be useful to make use of the Dublin-Core-checker of Heinrich Stamerjohanns http://harvest.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/dc/index.html The DC-Checker does not focus on formal XML correctness of OAI-Records (use the

Cornell University Library (to cancel Elsevier journals?)

2003-11-12 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
Regarding Cornell's plan's to cancel Elsevier journals: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_11_09_fosblogarchive.html# What is all the fuss about? The Physics Department of the University of Oldenburg has canceled all commercial journals, with the exception of small ones (less than

Re: Central vs. Distributed Archives

2003-11-06 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
the standpoint of the reader. http://www.iupap.org lists the recent London conference on plagiarism, misconduct of authors, referees, journal editors. Ebs . Eberhard R. Hilf, Dr. Prof.; CEO (Geschaeftsfuehrer) Institute for Science Networking

Re: Open Letter to Philip Campbell, Editor, Nature

2003-10-31 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
Copright /right of the Author law in Germany means: it serves the publishers the right of the form, format, layout of the paper, not the content. There is no rights management for the content. Thus this fits to not selfarchive the .pdf file of the publisher but the content in a form and format of

Re: Berlin Declaration on Open Access

2003-10-22 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
/graphics/index.html for it which gives the actual number and type (with/without Metadata) of documents. Also, this system, is in the making. Eberhard Hilf . Eberhard R. Hilf, Dr. Prof.; CEO (Geschaeftsfuehrer) Institute for Science Networking Oldenburg GmbH

Re: JHEP will convert from toll-free-access to toll-based access

2003-10-09 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
JHEP was open and free and then sold to IoPP Inst.of Physics Publishing which is the publisher company of IoP, and is charged according to their rules. Thus it is no longer in the hands of their creators, and just has the same name. Ebs . Eberhard R

Re: Central vs. Distributed Archives

2003-09-10 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
von Ossietzky University http://www.isn-oldenburg.de i On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Stevan Harnad wrote: On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Eberhard R. Hilf wrote: the physics ArXiv has a linear increase of the number of papers put in per month, this gives a quadratic

Re: Central vs. Distributed Archives

2003-09-08 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
. -- [That is why it is e.g. best, to keep letter distribution by horses at a remote island (Juist) alive since the medieval times]. Ebs . Eberhard R. Hilf, Dr. Prof.; CEO (Geschaeftsfuehrer) Institute for Science Networking Oldenburg GmbH an der Carl

Re: Detecting Plagiarism

2003-07-23 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
for the different parts. Eberhard R. Hilf . Eberhard R. Hilf, Dr. Prof.i.R.; CEO Institute for Science Networking Oldenburg GmbH an der Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Ammerlaender Heerstr.121; D-26129 Oldenburg http://www.isn-oldenburg.de/ my homepage: http://isn

Re: Cliff Lynch on Institutional Archives

2003-03-17 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
dear Colleagues, I agree with Thomas that instead of 'enforce' you have to 'encourage' showing the chance to get better seen by his/her scientific community if he/she does some specific steps. As an example: our Department has stopped ordering all high price journals (keeping only those below

Re: Grant for founding new open-access journals

2002-12-19 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
in Physics we know of 55 Physics refereed ejournals alone. see http://www.physnet.de/PhysNet/journals.html In total, across all fields, the number of free full text ejournals should be far beyond 200, http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?bibid=Acolors=7lang=en the Electronic

Re: List of eprint archives

2002-09-24 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
, Math-Net, etc. see http://www.physics-network.org/PhysNet/physdoc.html http://marenet.uni-oldenburg.de/MareNet/maredoc.html http://www.math-net.de (did not work this morning) (with MPRESS, and acta mathematica,..) Ebs . Eberhard R. Hilf, Dr. Prof.i.R

Re: Paper not accepted by a journal - still a pre-print?

2002-08-07 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
Here follows a rather lengthy discussion partially in broken english; maybe you can wait for the summarizing until the dust settled. Eberhard R. Hilf (ERH) :: ERH: Refereed means in an archive, that the paper has passed. Stevan Harnad: This is incorrect

Re: Paper not accepted by a journal - still a pre-print?

2002-08-07 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
documents by mail to all relevant to his work laboratories in the world. That was very well received. . Eberhard R. Hilf, Dr. Prof.i.R.; CEO Institute for Science Networking Oldenburg GmbH an der Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Ammerlaender Heerstr.121; D

Re: Paper not accepted by a journal - still a pre-print?

2002-08-06 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
Further reading: E.R.Hilf and H.-J.Waetjen: Scientific Refereeing in a Distributed World http://isn-oldenburg.de/~hilf/vortraege/cern01/ . Eberhard R. Hilf, Dr. Prof.i.R.; CEO Institute for Science Networking Oldenburg GmbH an der Carl von Ossietzky

Re: Napster: stealing another's vs. giving away one's own

2002-03-04 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
. Eberhard R. Hilf, Dr. Prof.i.R.; CEO Institute for Science Networking an der Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg Ammerlaender Heerstr.121; D-26129 Oldenburg ISN: http://www.isn-oldenburg.de/ my homepage: http://physnet.uni-oldenburg.de/~hilf h

Re: What exactly is the digital preservation problem?

2002-01-05 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
: noone reads the original papers of Einstein, but all of us use the equation, shure enough not in the form, Einstein wrote them, but with the present mathematical tools and knowledge]. Comments to me for summarizing or directly for the list. Eberhard R. Hilf 4.1.2002

Re: Should Publishers Offer Free-Access Services?

2001-12-23 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
or www.eps.org/PhysDoc . Eberhard R. Hilf, Dr. Prof.i.R.; CEO Institute for Science Networking an der Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg Ammerlaender Heerstr.121 D-26129 Oldenburg ISN: http://www.isn-oldenburg.de/ my homepage: http

Re: Central vs. Distributed Archives

2001-11-19 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
dear Stevan, thanks a lot for your somehwat summary of the topic up to now. I agree with what you say. All paths leading to the same destination. Indeed, we work on all three lines: encourage the authors, the institutions to set up selfarchiving with our help or gate or not and promote central

Re: HighWire Press's Free Online Archive

2001-11-17 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
Steve said the only way is using OAi-compliance by the author to selfarchive his documents before and through refereeing. The word only is too much of a load. In Physics (and Mathematics) since a long time authors can selfarchive their documents, without having to install any software or learn

Re: No Free Lunches: We Should Resist the Push to Rush Research Online

2001-10-09 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
ways to exchange information with transferring the quality labels. Eberhard R. Hilf

Re: FOS Newsletter Excerpts

2001-07-13 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
The discussion reply is a misunderstanding: from paper age with publish first, with ONE type of peer reviewing (the referee stays anonymous to the author), distribute then to some libraries, now in the digital age we have distribute first, post on the web by the author or his institution's server

Re: Copyright, Embargo, and the Ingelfinger Rule

2001-05-25 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
The Ingelfinger rule is not a rule or law but a policy of some publishers as of 1969, that is of the time referee first, publish/distribute then. With the online age the authors should serve the scientific progress as best they can. That is publish/distribute first, using their own/their