Re: Research publishing and Open access - Latest developments from the Wellcome Trust: November 2004

From: David Goodman <David.Goodman_at_LIU.EDU>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:52:01 -0500

The relative merits ar not known. There is a good deal of speculation on both sides, which is inevitable at this
stage, and both models aer worthy of experimentation. Some ofthe advocates ofIR are quite deertain that their position is abasoluitely sure, but their difficulty in convincintg othether -- and by that I mean others who equally support OA.
 
Anyone is is really sure of what will happen and what is best is not acting like a scientist, who requres evidence before conclusions.
 
 
Dr. David Goodman
Associate Professor
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Long Island University
dgoodman_at_liu.edu

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From: American Scientist Open Access Forum on behalf of Subbiah Arunachalam
Sent: Fri 11/5/2004 10:35 AM
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Subject: Re: Research publishing and Open access - Latest developments from the Wellcome Trust: November 2004



The Wellcome Trust deserves praise for its continuing
support to the Open Access movement. The Trust would
do well to accept the recommendation of Prof. Stevan
Harnad and decide to support authors depositing their
papers in their own institutional archives rather than
just a centralised archive. The relative merits are now
well known.

Arun
(Subbiah Arunachalam)
Received on Fri Nov 05 2004 - 15:52:01 GMT