How does that translate to 'almost total nonuse'? I am getting increasingly
baffled here
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Goodman" <dgoodman_at_PRINCETON.EDU>
To: <AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: ALPSP statement on BOAI
> In this particular case I meant only the insistence of some
> administrative bodies that the publications be in formal conventional
> journals, sometimes even requiring that they be in print format.
>
> This has nothing to do with peer review, one way or another. I agree
> with Stevan on this, and endorse his statements below.
>
> Stevan Harnad wrote:
> >
> >
> > > From: "David Goodman" <dgoodman_at_PHOENIX.PRINCETON.EDU>
> > >
> > > What will prove or disprove the case is not [ALPSP's] study, or
anyone's,
> > > but the market. If people value the features, they will pay for them.
> > > And it is really that simple, assuming there are no artificial
> > > constraints,
> > > such as excessively rigid tenure requirements and other
> > > administrative interference.
> >
> > I fervently hope that we will not be led down the garden path of
> > "evaluation/assessment reform" (or "peer-review reform") in continuing
> > this discussion.
> >
> > There are no doubt grievances and gripes in both those domains too, and
> > plenty of room for reform, but they have nothing to do with what we are
> > discussing here, causally, apart from the fact (which changes nothing)
> > that academic evaluation/assessment currently depends in part on
> > publication ("publish or perish") and on publication in high-imact
> > peer-reviewed journals in particular.
> >
> > We are here to
> > free this peer-reviewed literature, such as it is, from its
> > impact-blocking access-tolls, not to free it from peer review or
> > impact, nor from the uses to which the output of those quality-control
> > methods and metrics are subsequently put.
> >
> > Stevan Harnad
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