Dear Steven Harnad,
I have always found your opinions regarding open access extremely
logical and wise, and much of my own reasoning was greatly influenced
by your writings.
But things I have read in the American Scientist Open Access Forum
these days forced me to leave my position of silent
Iva Melinscak Zlodi makes a valid and poignant plea on behalf of both the
motivations and the contributions of librarians -- both in the struggle to
maximize journal affordability (for the sake of their researcher/users)
and the struggle to maximize researcher access to journal articles. The
two
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- Original Message -
From: Stevan Harnad har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk
To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: May 12 CERN meeting on implementing the Berlin Declaration
The Berlin Declaration, however, and its implementation
Below are my reactions upon reading the Schoegl/Velden Roadmap
for implementing the Berlin Declaration.
http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-cern/presentation-oa2berlin-roadmap-proposal.p
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Where has the enthusiasm awakened in 14/02/02 by the the Budapest Open
Access Initiative gone?
Helene asks why she perceived an emphasis on OA journals
I think the emphasis on OA journals is due to 2 factors:
1. The probability of OA journals succeeding is perceived to be much
greater than most people would have said a year ago.
2. The repository model (self-archiving) has now been
CRITIQUE OF SCHLOEGL/VELDEN ROADMAP
FOR IMPLEMENTING THE BERLIN DECLARATION
Stevan Harnad
This is a critique (I hope a constructive one) of Robert Schloegl's and
Theresa Velden's (S/V's) Proposed Roadmap for implementing the Berlin
Declaration.
As I alas cannot attend the Berlin-2 conference at CERN on May 12,
http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-cern/
I can only skywrite my hopes as to the outcome:
A successful outcome would be an agreement that Open Access (OA) to journal
articles reporting funded research must be provided by funded
