Agriculture research archives

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:11:15 +0000

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Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 02:52:32 +0000 (GMT)
From: "[iso-8859-1] Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah_a_at_yahoo.com>
To: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: your mail

Dear Stevan:

I tried twice to post the message to the September 98
forum, but failed. Only then I sent it to you.

Agricultural researchers need to be told about these
advantages and they should be motivated to set up such
archives. There seems to be a vast gap between
physicists at one extreme and agricultural scientists
at the other. Unfortunately, most developing countries
need to strengthen agricultural research more than
physics! Please forward both my messages to the
September 98 forum so we can get responses from
several others. Regards.

Arun

--- Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi
Arun,
>
> You seem to have sent this email just to me. If you
> want a public
> answer; please post it to the september forum
> (amsci) but could I ask
> you to state your negative assumption more
> tentatively, because the
> fact is that via distributed institutional archiving
> other
> discipplines ARE now self-archiving too. You don't
> see the discipline
> numbers preciseley becquse these are no longer
> discipline archives,
> but distributed ,ultidisciplinary university
> archives. And that
> will be part of the answer to your question (ie
> that distirbuted
> institutional archiving will accelerate
> self-archiving). The other
> half of the answer will be scientometric search
> engines like citebase
> that demonstrate quantitatively the caulal
> connection between access
> and impact. You yourself could gather so,e of the
> data to encourage
> agriculture.
>
> Chrs, S
>
> On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, [iso-8859-1] Subbiah
> Arunachalam wrote:
>
> > Friends:
> >
> > Stevan Harnad says: "Strategies for rapidly
> filling
> > all the institutional repositories are what's
> most
> > urgently needed now".
> >
> > Except physicists, astronomers and computer
> > scientists, most others do not seem to be really
> keen
> > on setting up archives and on promoting open
> access.
> > How do we (meaning Open Access champions like
> Harnad,
> > Suber, Chan and others) convince them of the great
> > usefulness of Open Access? I am particularly
> concerned
> > about agriculture and related sciences, as anyone
> from
> > a developing country should be.
> >
> > Arun
> > [Subbiah Arunachalam]
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