Excerpts from the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter
December 26, 2001
In a 1952 essay, A. J. Muste argued that civil disobedience was useful
in part because it made actual dissidents known to potential
dissidents. It broke the appearance of unanimity that, by itself,
discouraged
Excerpts from the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter
December 19, 2001
Developments
* _Cortex_, a journal of the nervous system and behavior, has just freed
its contents, making its online edition free of charge to all readers with
no enforced waiting periods. The new policy is
Excerpts from the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter
December 12, 2001
* The LANL Research Library has released version 2.0 of FlashPoint, a
cross-archive search engine specifically designed for MathSciNet,
SciSearch, BIOSIS, and the DOE Energy database.
http://lib-www.lanl.gov
When I want to copy or repost, I
always ask the original author simply as a fundamental
matter of courtesy, but also because the situation might have changed.
I have sometimes put a copyright line at the bottom of things I've
written and posted, merely as an indication that I would like to be
info
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Stevan Harnad wrote:
>
> Joseph Riolo has not understood this point and I do not think anything
> is gained from further repetition, unless there is some new, pertinent
> information introduced.
To be very blunt (forgive me), Stevan Harnad's position on copyright
is flatly wro
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Joseph Pietro Riolo wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Stevan Harnad wrote:
> sh>
> sh> Note that (1) this is a speculation on the part of Joseph Riolo, that
> sh> (2) it is based entirely on developments in the non-give-away sector,
> sh> the very sector to which all the goings-on
Joseph Riolo's preoccupation with declaring texts to be public-domain
is based on an agenda very different from that of this Forum. It has
nothing to do with freeing online access to the refereed research
literature and is indeed inapplicable to it. Interested readers should
go to google to find ou
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 Joseph Pietro Riolo wrote:
> ps> ...The preprint is not covered by the transfer of copyright of the
> ps> refereed final draft...
>
>As I mentioned before in this discussion group, this statement is not
>wholly correct. It all depends on how the agreement, contract, or any
>leg
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Stevan Harnad wrote:
>
> Note that (1) this is a speculation on the part of Joseph Riolo, that
> (2) it is based entirely on developments in the non-give-away sector,
> the very sector to which all the goings-on in this Forum are explicitly
> NOT addressed, and that (3) in the
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Peter Suber wrote:
>
> The preprint is not covered by the transfer of copyright of the
> refereed final draft. ...
As I mentioned before in this discussion group, this statement is not
wholly correct. It all depends on how the agreement, contract, or any
legal docume
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Peter Suber wrote:
>
> * Also in the December _JEP_, Marshall Poe describes why online publishing
> will save the specialized monograph. You'll enjoy his funny, first-person
> account of an experiment with informal peer review, the public domain,
> Printing Service Providers (
At 05:42 AM 12/6/2001 -0500, Joseph Riolo wrote:
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Peter Suber wrote:
>
> The difficulty of total deletion has one more benefit for FOS. If you put
> an unrefereed preprint of your work on the web, well before the moment when
> you might assign the copyright to a journal, and
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Joseph Pietro Riolo wrote:
> ...not
> to underestimate the monopolistic power in the copyright. There is
> no sign that the power will contract. Instead, it is expanding
> and I won't be surprised that the copyright holders in future will
> force, with the threat of lawsuit,
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Peter Suber wrote:
>
> The difficulty of total deletion has one more benefit for FOS. If you put
> an unrefereed preprint of your work on the web, well before the moment when
> you might assign the copyright to a journal, and then later publish a
> revised or unrevised version
Excerpts from Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter
December 5, 2001
Budapest FOS conference
On December 1-2 I attended a small, intense, productive, and very enjoyable
conference in Budapest to map strategies for achieving FOS world-wide. The
conference was hosted by the Open Soc
Excerpts from the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter
November 26, 2001
I'll be attending an FOS conference in Budapest next week sponsored by the
Open Society Institute. As a result, the next issue of the newsletter will
appear after I return and catch up on my news-gathering.
Excerpts from the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter
November 16, 2001
* HighWire Press is now the world's largest free online archive of articles
in the life sciences and overall second only on to the NASA's Astrophysics
Data System. HighWire now hosts 100 journals that provide
Excerpts from the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter
November 9, 2001
Turning the tables
In earlier issues, we've worried about the commercial exploitation of FOS
(see FOSN for 7/17/01 and 8/7/01). If you put content online for free for
readers, then it's also free for commerci
[Excerpts from] the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter
November 2, 2001
Huge free online astronomy database funded
The NSF has given $10 million to 17 institutions to create a web-based
National Virtual Observatory. This will be a unified front end to 17 huge
databases of astro
Excerpts from Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter
October 26, 2001
More follow-up on the _Machine Learning_ resignations
* Andrea Foster has a good article about the resignations in the October 18
_Chronicle of Higher Education_.
http://chronicle.com/free/2001/10/2001101801t.htm
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Welcome to the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter
October
Excerpts from the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter
October 5, 2001
* The federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded
$3.5 million to 18 libraries to digitize some of their collections and put
them on the internet free of charge.
http://www.imls.gov/whats
The Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter
September 14, 2001
Please let all of you and yours be alive and safe.
There are certain images from Tuesday that I will never get out of my
head. Sometimes they derail all productive thought, and sometimes they
energize. This issue of t
Peter Suber's Free Online Scholarship Newsletter
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/index.htm
is such a valuable resource that I have bounced my own copy to the
Forum (at the risk of having my subscription unsubscribed by anyone who
gets it!).
[Peter: is there any way to subscribe the AmSci
Welcome to the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter
September 6, 2001
Since mid-May I've followed the rule of thumb not to publish issues more
often than once a week. So I apologize that this issue arrives only six
days after the last one. The reason is that tomorrow I'll be bus
Welcome to the Free Online Scholarship Newsletter
August 23, 2001
Introducing the Guide to the FOS Movement
I'm very pleased to announce that I've finished the first draft of my Guide
to the FOS Movement. This is a guide to the terminology, acronyms,
initiatives, standards, technolog
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
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 02:58:40PM +0100, Stevan Harnad wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Bernard Lang wrote:
>
> > I noticed that many people on this list seem genuinely afraid of
> > hurting the feelings of publishers. Stevan gave me that impression in
> > our latest exchange, to which I stopped repl
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Bernard Lang wrote:
> I noticed that many people on this list seem genuinely afraid of
> hurting the feelings of publishers. Stevan gave me that impression in
> our latest exchange, to which I stopped replying because I had the
> impression that his eagerness to defend publish
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> From: "Michael Kay"
> To: "'Alan Story'" ;
>
> Cc: "Istvan Rev" ; "Anna Maria Balogh"
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 11:11 AM
> Subject: Re: FOS Newsletter Excerpts
>
>
> > It is a shame that you should w
: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org
Subject: Re: FOS Newsletter Excerpts
A few comments on "this gift" :
1) The " giving" is actually be done by the authors of the medical journal
articles, not the publishers. The publishers are only passing on what
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From: "Michael Kay"
To: "'Alan Story'" ;
Cc: "Istvan Rev" ; "Anna Maria Balogh"
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: FOS Newsletter Excerpts
> It is a shame that you should
A few comments on "this gift" :
1) The " giving" is actually be done by the authors of the medical journal
articles, not the publishers. The publishers are only passing on what they
got for free from authors.
2) Such benevolence on the part of publishers! Give away what you get for
free and pass
Welcome to the Free Online Scholarship Newsletter
July 10, 2001
Free online medical journals for the third world
Six major publishers are giving third-world universities and laboratories
free access to over 1,000 electronic medical journals. The gift was
coordinated by the World
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