On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Stuart David Lewis wrote:
> See: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/prog/prog.jsp
> As the editor notes in her editorial:
>
> "Let us hope that papers published in Program will be deposited in
> appropriate IRs and so be preserved for all those who wish to gain
> access to them in the future.".
Let us hope that it will be deposited for far, far better reasons than
that (since the preservation of journal-published articles, whether
paper or digital, is not and should not be the author's responsibility).
Self-archive your own final drafts of published articles in your IR so
that those who want to access and use them in the *present* -- today,
tomorrow, and thereafter -- can do so, even if they cannot afford access
to the journal in which they were published.
The purpose of making articles OA -- and the purpose of OA IRs -- is not
digital preservation! It is immediate and ongoing research access and
impact.
Amen.
Stevan Harnad
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