On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, J.W.T.Smith wrote:
> My basic interpretation of the 'Harnad model' is that Stevan wants every
> researcher to locally (or remotely) make available an open copy of either
> the submitted draft, final draft or published version of their research
> publications. It operates in parallel with the current journal model and
> uses the quality control services of existing journals.
>
> However, by using this existing quality control service it is, in fact,
> parasitic on the current model. What Stevan does not want to acknowledge
> is that this parasitism will ultimately destroy the current journal model
> (who is going subscribe to a journal when all its articles are available
> for free?).
>
> From my above analysis it is clear that having mandates (for self
> archiving) will not not only increase the number of research articles
> freely available (a good thing) but will also accelerate the end of the
> 'traditional' journal and force the evolution of a new form of academic
> publishing to replace it (in my opinion also a good thing :-) ).
Dear colleagues,
Hypotheses non fingo.
There is no Harnad model.
Research is published in c. 24,000 peer-reviewed journals (c. 2.5
million articles per year). (Datum, not hypothesis.)
Not all would-be users can access all those articles online. (Datum,
not hypothesis.)
Self-archiving supplements access, for those would-be users. (Datum,
not hypothesis.)
Self-archiving is correlated with higher and earlier download and
citation impact. (Datum, not hypothesis.)
Only c. 15% of those annual articles are being spontaneously self-archived
today. (Datum, not hypothesis)
When self-archiving is mandated, it rapidly rises toward 100%. (Datum,
not hypothesis.)
No evidence has been reported to date that self-archiving causes
cancellations. (Datum, not hypothesis.)
*Self-archiving might eventually cause cancellations and a change
in journal publishing model. (Hypothesis)
4.2 Hypothetical Sequel
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/399we152.htm
Mea culpa. Hypotheses non fingo.
There is no Harnad model.
Berners-Lee, T., De Roure, D., Harnad, S. and Shadbolt, N. (2005)
Journal publishing and author self-archiving: Peaceful Co-Existence
and Fruitful Collaboration.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11160/
Stevan Harnad
Received on Tue Oct 10 2006 - 13:37:24 BST