[GOAL] Re: Planning for the Open Access Era

Steven Harnad has had and still has an enormous influence on the open access question. But the way he pushes for has, sorry to say, in practice shown not to be able to compet with the market. That is a fact that the British government now recogineses and the rest of the world will follow. The

[GOAL] Re: Update on Ulrichs estimate of total number of active peer-reviewed journals: 55, 311

You will find 8,004 Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages in DOAJ and nearly 36.000 in Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek and my own list covering humanities and social sciences mostly, more than 16.000. Ulrich is not the

[GOAL] Re: Hat Tip: Let's not leave Humanities behind in the dash for open access

Is more than sixteen thousand free e-journals in the humanities and social sciences of any importance in this discussion? http://www.scribd.com/Jan%20Szczepanski Jan 2012/7/25 l.hurt...@ed.ac.uk: Webster concisely articulates the concerns that I briefly mooted a few days ago. Larry

[GOAL] Re: Wikipedia founder to help in [UK] government's research scheme

I wrote a piece a couple of years ago and compared the archives with the backyard steel furnaces during the Big Leap in China. At last an European government has the courage to change all that. We can expect a modern steel industry that will have a global impact. We time of the evangelist is at

Re: Interview with Rector of University of Liege

of Liege, answers these and more questions in an interview posted on Open Shut? http://bit.ly/mM0TRg -- Jan Szczepanski Övre Olskroksgatan 20 416 67 Göteborg Tel: 041 - 19 68 72 E-post: janszczepansk...@gmail.com

Re: Is the request copy button good for OA?

Andrew A. Adams wrote: From:Jan Szczepanski jan.szczepan...@ub.gu.se Subject: Re: Is the request copy button good for OA? The problem with the green way is mainly that it is a parasitic and has no life of it's own. More like a virus. The way scientists has taken is the golden road

Re: Is the request copy button good for OA?

University Library Jan Szczepanski Förste bibliotekarie Goteborgs universitetsbibliotek Box 222 SE 405 30 Goteborg, SWEDEN Tel: +46 31 7861164 Fax: +46 31 163797 E-mail: jan.szczepan...@ub.gu.se

Re: Off-line Vote

framförs här är mina personliga och inte ett uttryck för Göteborgs universitets- biblioteks hållning Opinions expressed here are my own and not that of Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek Jan Szczepanski Förste bibliotekarie Goteborgs universitetsbibliotek Box 222 SE 405 30 Goteborg, SWEDEN Tel: +46

Re: US University OA Resolutions Omit Most Important Component

to force people into the communist heaven. Maybe scientists are sceptical when their employer makes something compulsary. Scientists just trust other scientists. That is the problem with the green way. Sincerely Yours Jan Jan Szczepanski Frste bibliotekarie Goteborgs universitetsbibliotek Box 222 SE