Re: COPE, HOPE and OA

2009-09-28 Thread Jeffery, Keith (STFC,RAL,CHO)
Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Heather Morrison Sent: 27 September 2009 20:04 To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re: COPE, HOPE and OA On 27-Sep-09, at 5:56 AM, Les Carr wrote: [Re

Re: COPE, HOPE and OA

2009-09-27 Thread Leslie Carr
On 19 Sep 2009, at 12:25, Stevan Harnad quoted: the Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity (COPE) is a key initiative in the transition to open access. http://www.oacompact.org/ In these straitened times I wonder if it would be better for the HE sector to launch CORE, the

Re: COPE, HOPE and OA

2009-09-27 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 27-Sep-09, at 5:56 AM, Les Carr wrote: [Re] the Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity (COPE) http://www.oacompact.org/ In these straitened times I wonder if it would be better for the HE sector to launch CORE, the Compact for Open Access Research Equity, replacing concerns about

Re: COPE, HOPE and OA

2009-09-27 Thread Heather Morrison
On 27-Sep-09, at 5:56 AM, Les Carr wrote: [Re] the Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity (COPE) http://www.oacompact.org/ In these straitened times I wonder if it would be better for the HE sector to launch CORE, the Compact for Open Access Research Equity, replacing concerns about

Re: COPE, HOPE and OA

2009-09-24 Thread Steve Hitchcock
For COPE there is another angle to consider, the possible ramping-up of a real 'serials crisis'. Any economic system such as publishing is constrained. Subscription publishing places the constraint on access; open access publishing constrains publication. The former led some time ago to the

COPE, HOPE and OA

2009-09-19 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 Heather Morrison wrote: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2009/09/compact-for-open-access-publishing.html the Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity (COPE) is a key initiative in the transition to open access. http://www.oacompact.org/ In my last two postings --