Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
Actually none of this is necessary. If it is posted on his own
website, then all
you need on LENR-CANR.org is a URL pointing to it iso to your own
web site. It
wouldn't matter in the slightest to the rest of the world where the actual
document resides.
Robin has a point. Whenever, for whatever reason, you cannot host a
document, having a URL posted to where the document is hosted would
be useful. This could be to the sites of publishers, as with many
peer-reviewed papers you list but don't host for lack of permission,
or to other hosts.
I have 4 or 5 papers like that already, such as this one:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/SzpakSfurtherevi.pdf
I had the full document but the publisher called and asked me to
remove it. I asked "is it okay to keep the abstract?" and he said
sure, please do.
I include at least the abstract or in some cases juicy quotes from
the paper, such as this one:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MaddoxJfarewellno.pdf
That is here for political reasons. I want people to see Maddox's
words. The policy at LENR-CANR is that nothing goes in without
permission from the author and/or publisher, but I suppose we are
skirting the rules slightly for this paper. I do not think Maddox
would mind. He was not shy about his opinions. I wish Park or Slakey
would let me upload one of their rabid attacks claiming that all cold
fusion researchers are frauds, lunatics and criminals. Maybe I should
ask them again, but I think last time the subject came up, Ed was
unenthusiastic and told me he preferred not to see that stuff. Too
much controversy. That's one of the reasons I never uploaded any
version of this:
http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/293wikipedia.html
It makes sense to have papers with abstracts only for political
reasons (Maddox) or because the papers are really important and I
would like people to read them (Szpak). However, given the modern
Internet structure and the universal visibility of papers thanks to
Google, there is not much reason to do this nowadays.
Regarding Swartz's papers, I have no reason to upload them either in
part or in whole. They do not seem important to me and I do not care
whether anyone reads them. They have no political significance. When
I uploaded his abstract here (not even to LENR-CANR!) he went ape
shit and threatened dire legal repercussions. Even his response here
was over the top. So I am not going to upload any part of his work to
LENR-CANR without unmistakably clear permission.
- Jed
