Re: Science Article (Roberts et al.) and Science Editorial

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:00:30 +0100 (BST)

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Ingemar Bohlin wrote:

> As far as I can remember, it was in the spring or summer last year that
> Science, and I believe Nature, started to make much of their content freely
> available, 12 months after publication. I have scanned the web sites of the
> two journals, as well as the archive of the September 98 list, looking for
> details about these initiatives, but to no avail. What I am looking for is
> editorials in which the initiatives are announced. Would you know where I
> can find them?

    "We [at AAAS/Science] have decided to make our own back research
    reports and articles freely available after 12 months--at our own
    Web site--later this year."

        The Editors, Science (2001) Is a Government
        Archive the Best Option? Science 291: 2318b-2319b
        http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/291/5512/2318b

Amsci thread:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1236.html

I have heard nothing since that editorial. Perhaps someone else has?

Stevan Harnad


> Ingemar Bohlin
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> Gothenburg University
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> 405 30 Gothenburg
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