Re: Self-Archiving Refereed Research vs. Self-Publishing Unrefereed Research

From: Steve Hitchcock <sh94r_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 17:03:00 +0100

At 13:57 18/06/02 +0100, Stevan Harnad wrote:
>On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Steve Hitchcock wrote:
>
> > this is a PR issue. Since journalists always seem
> > to make this conflation, someone ought to address it.
> >
> > The fundamental problem... is that the open access
> > message, as presented, is too complex and too long.
> >
> > Give journalists the correct contraction and they are more likely to get
> > the story right.
>
>Here's a simple one that short-circuits misunderstanding
>if read while awake:
>
>Open Self-Archiving of Peer-Reviewed Publications

Remembering that this has to address popular media and the widest academic
audience, there are potentially problems with the use of 'open', 'self',
'archiving' and 'self-archiving'. At least the remainder is fairly
unambiguous.

I think we can spare a few more words in this sentence.

Steve
Received on Tue Jun 18 2002 - 17:03:00 BST