On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, [identity deleted] wrote:
> I've written to you a couple of times asking for permission to forward
> posts to my serials class list, and you very graciously granted me the OK.
> Now I have a question. I know that in reality things are not so simple as
> the one biggest issue,
> Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 11:21:45 +0530
> From: Subbiah Arunachalam
>
> Dear Stevan:
>
> Here is a senior scientist from Russia with some reservations about self
> archiving and open access. Maybe you would like to convince him. He is a
> Fellow of TWAS. Regards.
>
> Arun
Dear Arun,
No doubt beca
Steven,
You frequently complain about the
irrational hesitancy of many of the parties, and you may find some
understanding of their economic rationales to be helpful in
overcoming them.
Please continue to do your advocacy,
but there is also the need
for people to find some data about the presen
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, David Goodman wrote:
> For administrators in gleeful expectation of the "library windfall,"
> I note that the percent of the total US research university library
> budget devoted to serials costs in 2002 was only 26%.
> http://www.arl.org/stats/arlstat/graphs/2002/2002t4.html
lysis that, like symptom-transfer, keep being
adduced in place of eprints!):
"Zeno's Paradox and the Road to the Optimal/Inevitable"
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0819.html
"Prima-Facie FaQs for Overcoming Zeno's Paralysis"
ht
I remind Steve that all experience with information systems verifies the
Principle of Least Effort. People do what is easiest and most familiar,
regardless of their best interests, the availability of almost equally
easy alternatives, and the cogent arguments of friends, colleagues, and
advisors.
I leave it to others to reply further to Joseph Ransdell if they wish;
to me it seems he is debating irrelevant points of ideology and
interpretation, rather than points of susbtance and practice. He thinks
self-archiving papers in the Ginsparg Archives is primary publication.
Fine, let him call it
ZENO'S PARADOX AND THE ROAD TO THE OPTIMAL/INEVITABLE
Zeno's Paradox was the one about the philosopher who thought: "How can
I possibly get across this room? For before I can do that, I have to
get half-way across, and that takes time. And before I can get half-way
across, I h
In response to my description of your plan:
> > Your plan for achieving your goal ["to free the refereed literature online"]
> > ... is [1] to encourage self-archiving of
> > professional papers, including functional equivalents of papers already
> > published or being published in the refereed jo
