Dear Professor Harnad
You mention free software to set up IRs [1]. What about free software for
the users of IRs?
R. Courtland's little piece in the current issue of Nature ('Programs
promise to end PDF paper-chase: Software makes article control a virtual
reality' [2]) makes me wonder whether a piece of free software for Windows,
offering all the functionality of Papers, iPapers, Sente, Bibdesk, ... [3]
plus built-in roaming around DOAJ, ROAR, ... [4], might not do more to
persuade scientists of the joys of OA, than any number of mandates from the
Vice Chancellor, the European Commission, or the Politicheskoye Buro.
N Miradon
[1]
http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/sc/wa.exe?A2=ind08&L=american-scientist-open-access-forum&D=1&O=D&F=l&S=&P=37137
[2]
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080430//full/453012b.html
doi:10.1038/453012b
[3]
http://developer.apple.com/business/macmarket/papers.html
http://ipapers.sourceforge.net/Download.html
http://www.thirdstreetsoftware.com/index.cgi?page=download
http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/
...
[4]
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=expand
http://roar.eprints.org/
Received on Thu May 01 2008 - 13:53:00 BST