Re: PubScience under threat

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:01:30 +0100

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Mark Doyle wrote:

> This "gov't should not be involved" is a slippery slope. What happens
> to funding for:
>
> 1) Harvard-Smithsonian's ADS service
> 2) PubMed, Medline, and PubMedCentral
> 3) arXiv.org
>
> All of these are more than worthy of gov't support in my opinion
> and so is PubSCIENCE. There is no mandate that out-moded
> business models should be preserved at all costs. To be
> sure this is the real point of attacking PubSCIENCE. SIIA wants
> to push us down that slope.

I agree completely, and would add only that distributed, international,
interoperable, university-based archiving, reliably mirrored,
duplicated and cached, will be our best hedge against any particular
centralized or governmental caprices in the future.

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