Stevan,
Thanks for analysing the survey. I hadn't read it yet and just seen a few
slides in which it was mentioned.
I only recommend looking at it. Not necessarily agreeing with its
conlusion. You think that I should?
Jan
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Subject: Re: CIBER 2005: The foxes survey the chicken-coop
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Velterop, Jan Springer UK wrote:
> Interesting new (to me) survey:
> www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/papers/dni-20050925.pdf
One at first wonders why Jan Velterop would recommend a survey asking
disinterested questions of the form:
Question 10
Consider this statement:
'A major shift to open access publishing would undermine the
current scholarly journals system'
Question 10a
To what extent do you think this is likely to happen?
Very unlikely / Quite unlikely / Neither likely nor unlikely /
Quite likely / Very unlikely / I don't know
Question 10b
To what extent do you think this would be a good thing or a bad
thing?
Very bad / Quite bad / Neither good nor bad / Quite good /
Very good / I don't know
But as one reads further one finds the kind of question that probably
piqued Jan's own interests:
Question 16
Consider the statement:
'A major shift to archiving published articles in institutional
repositories would undermine the current scholarly journals system'
Question 16a
To what extent do you think this is likely to happen?
Very unlikely / Quite unlikely / Neither likely nor unlikely /
Quite likely / Very unlikely / I don't know
Question 16b
To what extent do you think this would be a good thing or a bad
thing?
Very bad / Quite bad / Neither good nor bad / Quite good /
Very good / I don't know
and
Question 15
Are you happy that, under an institutional repository model,
readers would be able to retrieve several different versions of
your articles? (for example, the 'official' version of your paper on
the publisher's website, together with one or more pre-publication
versions on public web sites)?
Very happy / Quite happy / Not very happy / Not at all happy /
I don't know
Nolo contendere. I prefer surveys that do not plant words or thoughts
into the surveyee's mouths/minds...
Stevan Harnad
Received on Tue Oct 18 2005 - 15:15:42 BST