Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-11-16 Thread Jean-Claude Gu�don
[ The following text is in the utf-8 character set. ] [ Your display is set for the iso-8859-1 character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] Interesting text from Stevan harnad. let me comment as follows: Le dimanche 15 novembre 2009 à 20:31 -0500, Stevan

Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-11-15 Thread Stevan Harnad
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Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-11-11 Thread H�l�ne . Bosc
  - Original Message - From: Couture Marc To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:37 PM Subject: Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself Marc Couture wrote : I was speaking on general terms: I see

Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-11-11 Thread Couture Marc
Hélène Bosc wrote : I can give the example of the 65 researchers of the lab of PRC at INRA in France who publish about 100 articles a year. Since 2003 our researchers publish in OA periodicals (essentially BMC periodicals). [...] 3 in 2008 As an exercise, I cross-checked with

Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-11-10 Thread Couture Marc
On November 9, 2009, 18:22, Stevan Harnad wrote: I'm not criticizing the pursuit of other options *in addition* to mandating self-archiving, I'm criticizing pursuing them *instead*, i.e. without first doing the doable, and already long overdue. As one who has worked (and devoted much time)

Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-11-10 Thread Stevan Harnad
My colleague and comrade-at-arms, Marc Couture, has done the doable: He has worked long and hard for the creation of an Institutional Repository (IR), Archipel http://archipel.uqam.ca (named by him!) at our institution, UQAM; he has deposited all his own papers therein; and since then he has

Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-11-10 Thread Couture Marc
Stevan Harnad wrote : The one point I am not sure I quite understand in Marc's commentary was I put more efforts [into] green-OA because I see more immediate, if not overreaching, results in gold-OA. I was speaking on general terms: I see (but it may be highly subjective) more progress on

Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-11-10 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 11/10/09, Couture Marc couture.m...@teluq.uqam.ca wrote: I was speaking on general terms: I see (but it may be highly subjective) more progress on the general front of Gold OA with, for instance, successes like PLoS, two journals appearing every day in DOAJ, etc... But I must admit that we

Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-11-10 Thread Jean-Claude Gu�don
[ The following text is in the utf-8 character set. ] [ Your display is set for the iso-8859-1 character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] That gold dust cannot accelerate through mandates is right, but it does not get in the way of green acres. And in the

Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-11-09 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Prof. Tom Wilson wrote: TW: Self-archiving is one approach, free, subsidised OA journals are another. My position is not against the former, it is simply that one approach alone is not likely to be successful and, on top of that, subsidised OA journals bring the maximum

Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-11-04 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 1-Nov-09, at 10:21 AM, Prof. Tom Wilson wrote: SH: Newspapers do not provide the service of peer review. TW: Irrelevant - they are all subject to the same forces and, in any event, it is the scholarly community that provides peer review, not the publisher.  Free OA journals can provide

Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-11-03 Thread Jean-Claude Gu�don
[ The following text is in the utf-8 character set. ] [ Your display is set for the iso-8859-1 character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] Le samedi 31 octobre 2009 à 15:16 -0400, Stevan Harnad a écrit : [snip] (And I do try to preach it from a different

Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-11-02 Thread Steve Hitchcock
On 31 Oct 2009, at 16:05, Prof. Tom Wilson wrote: 2, anything that props up the industry will simply delay the inevitable and institutional repositories prop up the industry - indeed, why else would publishers give permission for authors' works to be archived? Strong advocacy of

Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-10-31 Thread Stevan Harnad
...@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:boai-forum-boun...@ecs.soton.ac.uk ] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8:35 AM To: American Scientist Open Access Forum Cc: SPARC Open Access Forum Subject: [BOAI] Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-10-31 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 31-Oct-09, at 10:21 AM, Françoise Salager-Meyer wrote: I agree that the only solution is AN INSTITUTIONAL MANDATE. My question is: In view of the fact that all researchers want to publish in top-notch jornals (the 5.000 core journals), isnt' there an incompatibility between the

Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-10-31 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 31-Oct-09, at 12:05 PM, Prof. Tom Wilson wrote: No one knows exactly how the 'open access' movement will pan out but I think that some things are fairly clear. 1, scholarly publishers are facing very similar problems to the newspaper industry - changes in technologies are making them

Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-10-31 Thread Leslie Carr
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Noel, Robert E. rn...@indiana.edu wrote: Anyway, others have devoted much more time and energy to this topic than I have, but I'm skeptical of recommendations that bluntly reject other strategies from the outset. ... It's tantamount to engineers and scientists

Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-10-31 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Noel, Robert E. rn...@indiana.edu wrote: Anyway, others have devoted much more time and energy to this topic than I have, but I'm skeptical of recommendations that bluntly reject other strategies from the outset

Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-10-31 Thread Stevan Harnad
Consultants -Original Message- From: Leslie Carr Sent: 31 October 2009 08:38 To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Noel, Robert E. rn...@indiana.edu wrote

Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-10-31 Thread Leslie Carr
On 31 Oct 2009, at 13:09, Sally Morris (Morris Associates) wrote: Since when was solar and wind energy free (any more than quality- controlled and value-added research literature!)? On the contrary, sun and wind energy IS FREE. However, building the infrastructure to collect and distribute

Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-10-31 Thread Gu�don Jean-Claude
Harnad Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8:35 AM To: American Scientist Open Access Forum Cc: SPARC Open Access Forum Subject: [BOAI] Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself    [Apologies for Cross-Posting: Hyperlinked version is at: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives

Re: [BOAI] Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-10-30 Thread Noel, Robert E.
-Original Message- From: boai-forum-boun...@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:boai-forum-boun...@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8:35 AM To: American Scientist Open Access Forum Cc: SPARC Open Access Forum Subject: [BOAI] Wrong Advice On Open Access

Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-10-30 Thread Stevan Harnad
: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8:35 AM To: American Scientist Open Access Forum Cc: SPARC Open Access Forum Subject: [BOAI] Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself    [Apologies for Cross-Posting: Hyperlinked version is at: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/641

Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

2009-10-21 Thread Stevan Harnad
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