Like many words in the english language, "publishing" likely has many
meanings. In a business sense, newspapers, paperback novels, and
scholarly journals are all publications.
The Open Access debate, however, is focused on the scholarly,
peer-reviewed journal article. It is reasonable to assume that
"publishing" in this context refers to scholarly publishing, with the
quality control mechanisms of peer review, editing, and journal
reputation.
Given the context, there does not seem to be much point to discussing
the semantics. Let's just assume that "publishing" in this Forum,
refers to scholarly, peer-reviewed journal article publishing. Unless
someone would like to talk about open access to other kinds of
materials, in which case this should be specified as the exception.
hope this helps,
Heather Morrison
On 12-Nov-04, at 4:25 PM, Stevan Harnad wrote:
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, R. Stephen Berry wrote:
The American Chemical Society refuse to publish papers that have been
put onto open sites such as ArXiV.
That's called the "Ingelfinger Rule" -- fast-fading now, and has
nothing
to do with publication. (It always just some journals' arbitrary
submission
policy.)
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#publisher-forbids
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Rick Anderson wrote:
the OA establishment has adopted a definition of the word "publish"
that is
both absurdly narrow and professionally egocentric... "to place an
article
in a peer-reviewed scientific journal." [The] word has a much broader,
more generally accepted, and really more accurate definition: "to
make an
article publicly available"... "Publishing" [describes] what happens
when
an author makes his work freely available to the public through an OA
archive...
(1) I guess that would mean that self-archiving one's already published
journal article is "publishing a published article."
(2) Try listing unpublished papers as "published articles" on your CV
on the strength of having posted them on the Web (and let us know how
that's received)...
Stevan Harnad
"Garfield: 'Acknowledged Self-Archiving is Not Prior Publication'"
(2002)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2239.html
Harnad, Stevan (2000) Ingelfinger Over-Ruled: The Role
of the Web in the Future of Refereed Medical Journal
Publishing. Lancet Perspectives 256 (December Supplement): s16.
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/17/03/index.html
Heather G. Morrison
Project Coordinator
BC Electronic Library Network
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