On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Thomas J. Walker wrote:
> Why hasn't APS offered its authors, at a fair price...
> the service of posting an
> author's APS-formatted article on arXiv?...
>
> [Authors can already post the APS-formatted version on their own home
> pages, but as Andrew Odlyzko has documented, _any_ impediment to access
> reduces the use of information...
With the advent of OAI-compliant University Eprint Archives
http://www.arl.org/sparc/pubs/enews/aug01.html#6
it no longer makes any difference whatsoever, in terms of visibility or
access, and hence usage and impact, whether authors self-archive in a
central disciplinary Eprint Archive, like ArXiv or CogPrints, or in
their own institutional "home" Eprint Archives. Thanks to
OAI-compliance, all the papers in all those archives are interoperable,
hence harvestable into single global "virtual archives" such as ARC
http://arc.cs.odu.edu/
or
http://citebase.eprints.org/cgi-bin/search
Stevan Harnad
Received on Thu Dec 20 2001 - 19:07:06 GMT