On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Lars Aronsson wrote:
> [H]ow do we determine if an article is "permanently" accessible?...
> I know but one way to guarantee permanent access, and that is to allow
> free copying and republishing.
Webwide toll-free copying, downloading, and storing of self-archived articles
is allowed.
Webwide harvesting and caching is unpreventable.
Republishing is unnecessary.
Negotiating republishing rights is hence a needless obstacle and deterrent.
Permanence is always just a matter of probability.
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#1.Preservation
The primary preservation burden for the self-archived versions of toll-access
journal articles is on the primary toll-access version.
The full preservation burden is taken over only if and when the toll-access
journal converts to open-access.
The self-archived versions of physics articles from 1991, and their
respective enhanced impacts, are still alive and well today.
The versions non-archived out of perennity-qualms or failure to negotiate
republication rights -- and their respective enhanced impacts -- never
came to be.
Stevan Harnad
NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open
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is available at the American Scientist Open Access Forum:
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BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access
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Received on Sat Jan 03 2004 - 03:21:57 GMT