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I quite agree with Stevan Harnad on the value of this article.
I will simply add two points:
Barbara Kirsop adds: "Of associated importance are the open access
journals published in the developing countries, for example SciELO,
Bioline International, MedKnow Publications and many others, filling
the S to N knowledge gap and bringing researchers in these regions
into the international research community."
That is one thing that depositories will not do as easily for
researchers from developing countries.
The second point is that there is nothing confusing about supporting
self-archiving (with mandates) on the one hand, and supporting
e-journals on the other hand. There have been confusing arguments
around these two issues, but that is a different problem. That would
be my only disagreement with Barbara Kirsop, but, as anybody can
readily judge, it is extremely minor.
Jean-Claude Guédon
Le samedi 14 novembre 2009 à 15:04 -0500, Stevan Harnad a écrit :
The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development [EPT]'s dedicated,
inspired and tireless champion of developing world access to research
findings, Barbara Kirsop, has just done a timely and spot-on posting
on "Revisiting OA Priorities."
http://epublishingtrust.blogspot.com/2009/11/oa-priority.html
Received on Sun Nov 15 2009 - 03:41:12 GMT