At 12:33 18/04/02 +0100, Stevan Harnad wrote:
My own sense is that there is nothing whatsoever to worry about if
commercial publishers and providers are re-using Open Access
content and services to enhance their own products and services.
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Stevan, There is a saying
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Steve Hitchcock wrote:
There is a saying in business, for those who want to try and
divine the future, follow the money. We want open archives, but we want
them to be economically sustainable. The ability to make the self-archived
peer-reviewed literature freely available
Scirus.com, the web search engine for scientific information launched by
Elsevier Science last April, has now made 180.000 e-prints from arXiv.org
(formerly xxx.lanl.gov) available to its users. The e-prints of arXiv.org
were harvested using the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting of the Open