On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Barry Mahon wrote:
>sh> If and when the (500,000?) authors of the annual 2,000,000 articles
>sh> self-archive their peer-reviewed final drafts ("postprints") in their
>sh> own institutional OAI-compliant Eprint Archives (all interoperable with
>sh> one another, harvestable, hence seamlessly internavigable), that primary
>sh> goal [open access to the entire peer-reviewed literature] will be reached.
>
> I am glad you didn't say 'free' Open Access;
I did. Open access means: free, online, full-text access:
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
> apart from the non-trivial questions of how such a seamless system
> would be organised technically and organisationally,
See:
(1)
http://www.openarchives.org/
(2)
http://www.eprints.org/
(3)
http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/
(4)
http://opcit.eprints.org/
> how will it be paid for?
How are local university websites paid for?
Add about $10 annually per paper self-archived
(and that includes the time it took to self-archive it).
As to how the $500 per paper peer-review service will be paid for
if/when journal access-tolls no longer cover it because of user
preference for the open-access version, see:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/399we152.htm
> Another consideration; how will developing countries access this store?
The same way they access anything else on the web. (And certainly more fully
and openly than their current toll access!)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2171.html
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2112.html
> P.S. Thank you for the comprehensive summary of your position on OA.
You're welcome. It is not a new position, but I'm happy to keep
summarizing it for those who are seriously interested, if it helps...
Stevan Harnad
NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open
access to the peer-reviewed research literature online is available at
the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01 & 02):
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
or
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html
Discussion can be posted to: american-scientist-open-access-forum_at_amsci.org
See also the Budapest Open Access Initiative:
http://www.soros.org/openaccess
the Free Online Scholarship Movement:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm
the OAI site:
http://www.openarchives.org
and the free OAI institutional archiving software site:
http://www.eprints.org/
Received on Tue Dec 17 2002 - 00:04:01 GMT