--- Now the slippery-slope that could turn the BMJ/Stanford Archive into one that helps free the refereed journal literature after all: Where is the point of no return on the continuum from the unrefereed preprint to the refereed reprint? Will any rational author want to reserve the power of free public self-archiving for the unrefereed side of that continuum alone? http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/intpub.html And where do copyright agreements stand on this? The Los Alamos Physics Archive, which began as an unrefereed-preprint Archive now contains more and more refereed drafts, just as predicted in the Subversive Proposal above. And why not? The outcome (note: not the prior cause) is that the American Physical Society, the publisher of the highest quality and impact journals in Physics, now has the most progressive copyright policy, a model for all other publishers. No attempt is made to prevent authors from self-archiving the refereed version. (In whose interests would that have been? Certainly not in those of authors or readers, nor of research itself, hence of the rest of society.) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Author.Eprint.Archives/0006.html Let me close with a plug for another brave new Archive, for the interdisciplinary field consisting of the Cognitive Sciences (Psychology, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Biology [sic], Philosophy, and Linguistics) which has quietly been following the Los Alamos model for over a year now: http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk The academic thoroughbreds have been led to the water; history will record how long it takes them to drink... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stevan Harnad harnad_at_cogsci.soton.ac.uk Professor of Cognitive Science harnad_at_princeton.edu Department of Electronics and phone: +44 2380 592-582 Computer Science fax: +44 2380 592-865 University of Southampton http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ Highfield, Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/ SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Received on Wed Feb 10 1999 - 19:17:43 GMT
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