On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, [identity deleted] wrote:
> I've written to you a couple of times asking for permission to forward
> posts to my serials class list, and you very graciously granted me the OK.
> Now I have a question. I know that in reality things are not so simple as
> the one biggest issue, yet if you had to say what is the biggest obstacle to
> open access, open or self- archives, what would it be? This is not an
> assignment question. I'm just curious about what you might think.
Good question. I think I can rank-order the at-least 30 obstacles (all
groundless, all easily shown to be groundless), but I can't assign them
absolute weights (i.e., what percentage of the non-self-archived
papers/authors are not self-archived for this reason or for that).
So here is the list which started with
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0819.html
and evolved through "For Whom the Gate Tolls"
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm
to eventually make its way into the Self-Archiving Faq
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
I have here re-ordered and sub-grouped it to reflect what I think is
the rank-order of the inhibitory effects of the 9 main superordinate
categories:
(1) 10. Copyright
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#10.Copyright
(2) 7. Peer review
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#7.Peer
5. Certification
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#5.Certification
6. Evaluation
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#6.Evaluation
22. Tenure/Promotion
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#22.Tenure
13. Censorship
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#13.Censorship
(3) 29. Sitting pretty
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#29.Sitting
(4) 1. Preservation
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#1.Preservation
2. Authentication
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#2.Authentication
3. Corruption
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#3.Corruption
23. Version control
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#23.Version
25. Mark-up
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#25.Mark-Up
26. Classification
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#26.Classification
16. Graphics
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#16.Graphics
15. Readability
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#5.Readability
21. Serendipity
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#21.Serendipity
4. Navigation (info-glut)
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#4.Navigation
18. Libraries'/Librarians' future
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#18.Libraries
(5) 19. Learned Societies' future
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#19.Learned
(6) 17. Publishers' future
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#17 Publishers
8. Paying the piper
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#8.Paying
9. Downsizing
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#9.Downsizing
14. Capitalism
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#14.Capitalism
24. Napster
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#24.Napster
(7) 20. University conspiracy
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#20.University
30. Rechanneling toll-savings
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#30.Rechanneling
28. Affordability
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#28.Affordability
(8) 12. Priority
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#12.Priority
27. Secrecy
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#27.Secrecy
(9) 11. Plagiarism
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#11. Plagiarism
Stevan Harnad
NOTE: Complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open
access to the peer-reviewed research literature online is available at
the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01 & 02 & 03):
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html
Posted discussion to: american-scientist-open-access-forum_at_amsci.org
Dual Open-Access Strategy:
BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access
journal whenever one exists.
BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable
toll-access journal and also self-archive it.
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
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