Re: The self-archiving sweepstakes

2005-06-08 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Hans-Christoph Stephan wrote: dear Mr. Harnad, the University of Bielefeld says, it's the first german university which will support Open Access officially and relates to Berlin declaration. best regards, Hans-Christoph Stephan - editor - duz-Redaktion www.duz.de

Re: The self-archiving sweepstakes

2005-06-08 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Hans-Christoph Stephan wrote: the University of Bielefeld says it's the first german university which will support Open Access officially and relates to Berlin declaration. The University of Bielefeld has just registered its OA Self-Archiving Policy:

Re: The self-archiving sweepstakes

2005-05-16 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
Prior AmSci Topic Thread: The self-archiving sweepstakes (began February 7, 2003) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2662.html Dear Colleagues, It would be nice to get an estimate of the growth of the number of Open Access scientific documents (S. Harnad: immediate

Re: The self-archiving sweepstakes

2004-09-10 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
the process! Yours Eberhard R. Hilf h...@isn-oldenburg.de Initial AmSci Topic Thread: The self-archiving sweepstakes http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2662.html

Re: The self-archiving sweepstakes

2004-08-18 Thread Stevan Harnad
Prior AmSci Topic Thread: The self-archiving sweepstakes http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2662.htmlA Canada and Scotland have joined UK, US, Australia, India and Norway in edging toward mandated self-archiving: Mandatory self-archiving of peer-reviewed research

Re: The self-archiving sweepstakes

2004-05-27 Thread Heather Morrison
On 26-May-04, at 1:56 PM, David Goodman wrote: Is it the library that is responsible for the cost of self-archiving? Is it the library that runs the server, or pays for the Internet connection? Is it the library that does the proofreading, or scans the photographs? Many libraries do have

Re: The self-archiving sweepstakes

2004-05-27 Thread Steve Hitchcock
At 01:45 27/05/04 +0100, Heather Morrison wrote: An institutional repository is merely a new form of collection of information. Not *merely* a collection, it is much more than that. Evidence from ArXiv shows that open access archives become a focus for intense social activity and interaction

Re: The self-archiving sweepstakes

2004-05-26 Thread Waaijers, Leo
that in the Netherlands, under DARE, all universities have set up OA Eprint Archives and that they already contain 20,000 articles. As noted in the prior posting, the Netherlands is already 5th in the international self-archiving sweepstakes: * United States (54) * United

Re: The self-archiving sweepstakes

2004-05-26 Thread David Goodman
Dear Leo I am a little puzzled by your comment that: In The Netherlands ... For those who neglect the (price of) the trajectory from submission to publication in a toll gated journal, self archiving is the perfect solution: high quality articles for free! For those who pay for this trajectory,

Re: The self-archiving sweepstakes

2003-02-07 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Tom Abeles wrote: Harnad's observation is interesting if the prime reason for publishing were to share with colleagues. Unfortunately this ideal gets distorted by the myriad of reasons to publish or even not to publish, regardless of the disciplines. And, as an aside, the

Re: The self-archiving sweepstakes

2003-02-07 Thread Tom Abeles
Hi Steve I think we are in agreement here. Perhaps one of the issues is that the open archives concept also exposes all of these millions of refereed articles to the public at large. Academics might find that the Sokal Affair was benign compared to a potential fire storm in a time of shrinking

Re: The self-archiving sweepstakes

2003-02-07 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Tom Abeles wrote: Perhaps one of the issues is that the open archives concept also exposes all of these millions of refereed articles to the public at large. Academics might find that the Sokal Affair was benign compared to a potential fire storm in a time of shrinking

Re: The self-archiving sweepstakes

2003-02-07 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, H.M. Gladney wrote: http://lists.openlib.org/pipermail/oai-eprints/2003-February/38.html sh It has nothing -- repeat, nothing -- to do with either publishers sh or economists: It is purely between the research community and itself. Harnad seems to take a narrow and