Re: Third World Academy of Sciences and open access

2003-10-05 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Subbiah Arunachalam wrote: We should ask ourselves why in areas other than physics and computer science (where arXiv and CiteSeer are so very successful) scientists of the world are reluctant to set up open [access] archives. WSIS, Geneva, provides all of us a great

Re: Third World Academy of Sciences and open access

2003-10-02 Thread Peter Suber
At 01:25 PM 10/1/2003 +0100, Barbara Kirsop wrote: Thanks, Arun, for your paper and letter to TWAS. Does anyone know what liklihood there is of OA being raised at the forthcoming WSIS meeting? I am out of touch with UK discussions and proposals and although I proposed an OA resolution at a

Re: Third World Academy of Sciences and open access

2003-10-02 Thread Darius Cuplinskas
TWAS and open accessThere is a WSIS working group on open access to scientific information, chaired by Francis Muguet. For more information see Dr. Muguet's site at: http://www.ensta.fr/~muguet/openaccess/ ...and the WSIS working group site: http://www.wsis-si.org/

Third World Academy of Sciences and open access

2003-10-01 Thread Stevan Harnad
Dear friends: Here is a letter I am sending to many Fellows of the Third World Academy of Sciences on the need for them to support institutional self archiving and open access. TWAS is meeting soon in Beijing. Regards. Arun Subbiah Arunachalam --- An open letter to Fellows of TWAS Dear

Re: Third World Academy of Sciences and open access

2003-10-01 Thread Barbara Kirsop
Thanks, Arun, for your paper and letter to TWAS. Does anyone know what liklihood there is of OA being raised at the forthcoming WSIS meeting? I am out of touch with UK discussions and proposals and although I proposed an OA resolution at a British Council meeting last year I am unsure if this