So what ...
do both ... let librarians and people do the archiving.
and stop considering that people are too stupid to find information
to assess the value of what they read.
Actually there are easy and varied means to do the refereeing
process. Post-Gutenberg refereeing, mind you... i.e. d
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Albert Henderson wrote:
> In short, there is no need for self-archiving refereed
> articles, except perhaps as an author's way of
> responding to requests for "reprints."
>
> ...There is no chance that _all_
> authors can be coaxed into 'archiving' _all_ their
> papers in an or
Stevan refuses to acknowledge that libraries are the
free source of the refereed literature. When he floated
his idea around 1990, publishers had little online and
the library crisis propaganda campaign was still fresh.
Today, major publishers have their journals online.
To access them online, one
Trisectionism, Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the Football
I reply to Albert Henderson in some haste, being off to the Open
Society Institute (Soros Foundation) meeting arranged by
Peter Suber of the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Movement
in Budapest Dec 1
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Am
on 27 Nov 2001 Stevan Harnad wrote:
> AH> The confusion comes in the link between the 'freeing' of the
> AH> scientific record and the [1] debasement of libraries, the
> AH> [2] demolition of journals, and the [3] shifting of costs
> AH> from institutions to individuals.
> sh> I regret I have no
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 Albert Henderson wrote:
> The confusion comes in the link between the 'freeing' of the
> scientific record and the [1] debasement of libraries, the
> [2] demolition of journals, and the [3] shifting of costs
> from institutions to individuals.
I regret I have nothing
On 26 Nov 2001 Stevan Harnad wrote:
> And let us not confuse interactive on-line commentary (the "labile"
> medium) with the refereed research corpus itself, which is, if you
> like, the lapidary textual ("skyreading") database on which the
> rapidfire skywriting can be based (if/when one wishes)
