Dear Colleagues,
Thank you for your appreciation that earlier today I attempted to provide
my argument to discuss Dr. Stevan Harnad "Draft letter for institutions
to sign to implement Berlin declaration" dated 25 December 2003.
I did not intend to "going on and on about BiomedCentral" as Dr. Harnad
justified (see below).
I think that what might cause such thinking is a moderation-born erratic
"Prior Amsci Thread" stamp: "Re: BioMed Central and new publishing
models".
Please be sure that what I discuss in both letters is the statement in
Item 8 of Dr. Harnad draft letter that "New "open-access" journals can
recover their costs by charging the author-institution for each outgoing
article they publish". I argue that "Open access" does not necessarily
mean "charging the author or institution", and explain why.
Not moderated [by Amsci] version of both letters are available at ARL SOAF archive:
1st letter: <
https://arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/380.html>
2nd letter: <
https://arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/383.html>
(2nd letter is a response on
<
https://arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/382.html> Dr.Harnad reply
on my 1st letter)
Sincerely,
Alexei Koudinov, MD, PhD
Competing interest declaration: I do not have any competing financial
interest. I am a founding, managing and publishing editor of the
<
http://neurobiologyoflipids.org/>Neurobiology of Lipids, an unpaid
position. Neurobiology of Lipids (ISSN 1683-5506) has no affiliation
with any professional association, publisher, industry member, commercial
enterprise, public, educational or government organization. The viewpoint
presented in the cited above letters is my personal view.
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At 07:11 PM 12/26/2003 +0000, Stevan Harnad wrote:
> Alexei Koudinov is tilting at the wrong target: The target is
> open-access provision for the 2,500,000 yearly articles in the world's
> 24,000 journals. We will not reach that target faster if we spend our
> time quarreling with the few journals (<1000) that provide open access
> already! 23,000 journals-worth of articles -- 2,400,000 -- still await
> open-access. Why is Alexei going on and on about BiomedCentral?
Received on Sat Dec 27 2003 - 11:31:04 GMT