On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, [identity deleted] wrote:
> I am sure you would have seen the articles published in Nature Vol 426, Nov 2003
> (pages 7 and 15) regarding Preprint Server and problems likely to be faced by the
> servers which host articles routinely (without editing). I am writing to you about
> this just in case you have missed it.
>http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/dynapage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v426/n6962/index.html
Yes, there were AmSci postings on those two Nature articles:
"Re: Central vs. Distributed Archives"
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3151.html
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3154.html
In sum,
(1) eprint archives are not publishers but access-providers;
(2) hence their only obligation is to remove deposits that have
proven to be illegal (such as pornography, inciting violence,
libel/defamation, plagiarism) and to have means of identifying
the depositors in case there is need for legal action;
(3) it is probably too much to expect central archives like Arxiv
to vet all their deposits (Arxiv has 4000 per month);
(4) hence this probably represents yet another reason why distributed
institutional archives are preferable to central ones (in the
OAI-interoperable age, when all these archives are equivalent);
(5) institutions can easily vet their own deposits, by their
own faculty, at a departmental level.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/archpolnew.html
This has also been followed by a series of postings on how many
articles have been removed from the Physics Arxiv across the years,
and why, on the thread:
"Re: Copyright: Form, Content, and Prepublication Incarnations"
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3180.html
Mostly it has been because of errors in the unrefereed preprint.
Stevan Harnad
NOTE: A 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
Post 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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