On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Klaus Graf
<klausgraf_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
As I have shown
at
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5193609/ the Request
button isn't legal in Germany.
(1) I regret to point out that -- like everyone else in this
discussion -- you have not shown, you have merely asserted.
Your Request-button-ideology is based on pure
arbitrariness.
(2) The Button is not ideology, it is concrete, implemented,
practical technology: click here
If the author only has the mail adress of the requester
and no university affiliation - what are the criteria to
decide? Random?
(3) For screen shots showing how the eprint-requester can (as in all
reprint-request cards for over a half-century) indicate, if he
wishes, his institution and his reasons for the request, click here.
Or simply NO - ...most scholars in my several tests
have'nt reacted on my request button tests.
(4) Mr. Graf, I cannot explain why some of the authors from whom you
have requested eprints have declined to fulfill your eprint-request.
(5) The decision to send a reprint or eprint is a discretionary one,
on the part of the author, and that is exactly how it should be.
Stevan Harnad
Received on Sun Feb 15 2009 - 17:30:59 GMT