Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] Frontiers 2020: one third of journals raise price 45 times the inflation rate (or more)

2020-06-04 Thread Thomas Krichel
about it, with links to cometary by yours truly, on the inetbib archive. https://www.inetbib.de/listenarchiv/msg67546.html -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomask

Re: [GOAL] COVID-19 and access to knowledge

2020-04-05 Thread Thomas Krichel
mstances surrounding its production * some initial conditions -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel ___ GOAL mailing li

Re: [GOAL] COVID-19 and access to knowledge

2020-03-31 Thread Thomas Krichel
, to address this issue. It's an expertise-sharing system powered by human selectors who are aided by sophisticated use of machine learning. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel

Re: [GOAL] COVID-19 and access to knowledge

2020-03-31 Thread Thomas Krichel
gained from doing but also from storing, organising, and reviewing it. Libraries ought to have pressed that case a long time ago. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:t

Re: [GOAL] COVID-19 and access to knowledge

2020-03-31 Thread Thomas Krichel
Ec. It's work funded with a 3000 Euro grant by the French central bank foundation for economic research. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel ___

Re: [GOAL] New paper: A tale of two 'opens': intersections between Free and Open Source Software and Open Scholarship

2020-03-06 Thread Thomas Krichel
is repository based infrastructure. That's why the first mandate failed. The resources available for repositories were a pittance compared to what the proprietary publishers got, so the repositories could not compete. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel

Re: [GOAL] Projekt DEAL is a very serious impediment to BOAI Open Access

2019-09-01 Thread Thomas Krichel
ee things: zilch, nada, and sweet fa. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/

Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] ‘Transformative’ open access publishing deals are only entrenching commercial power

2019-08-15 Thread Thomas Krichel
tter. I'm not closely following Plan S but I tend to agree. Open access has the risk of making commercial intermediation even more expensive than toll-gated access ever was. > We are continuing to actively work against efforts to return control of > publishing to the academic community

Re: [GOAL] Open Access: "Plan S" Needs to Drop "Option B"

2018-09-15 Thread Thomas Krichel
ng OA more expensive than subscriptions. But I am not worried yet, because Plan S would only cover funded research, and it calls for a cap. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel __

Re: [GOAL] levels of open access based on Web of Science and oaDOI data

2018-01-14 Thread Thomas Krichel
spent building open access tools and/or data. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.or

Re: [GOAL] bepress Joins Elsevier, with Exciting Potential for Growth

2017-08-02 Thread Thomas Krichel
Jean-Gabriel Bankier writes > I am thrilled Is anybody else thrilled? -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel ___ GOAL mailing list G

Re: [GOAL] SSRN Sellout to Elsevier

2016-05-19 Thread Thomas Krichel
ers up at the MPRA https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/ And get in touch with re...@repec.org if you want to sponsor us. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel ___

Re: [GOAL] SSRN Sellout to Elsevier

2016-05-17 Thread Thomas Krichel
al repositories. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] Re: "Yawanna know wush wrong with this damn planet...?."

2015-12-31 Thread Thomas Krichel
Stevan Harnad writes > 1. Actually, no one really knows why it is taking so long to reach the > optimal and inevitable outcome -- universal OA -- oh I know. It's because libraries are spending money on subscriptions. And as long as they do, OA remains evitable. -- Cheers,

[GOAL] Re: Dutch begin their Elsevier boycott

2015-07-03 Thread Thomas Krichel
, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] OAI9 registrations close on 30 May

2015-05-16 Thread Thomas Krichel
and discussed. Do join us if you would like to be part of this conversation by registering to attend the Workshop at https://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/registration/ Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel

[GOAL] OAI9 poster submission deadline

2015-04-11 Thread Thomas Krichel
and preservation of large and complex scientific objects Use https://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/registration/ to register. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel

[GOAL] OAI9 Workshop in Geneva 17-19 June 2015

2015-02-26 Thread Thomas Krichel
/registration/register#/register The OAI Organisers (see http://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/page/7) look forward to meeting you all in Geneva in June. For the OAI9 Organising Committee with cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel

[GOAL] Re: Interesting Current Science opinion paper on Predatory Journals

2014-09-25 Thread Thomas Krichel
-review whatever that means. I have created such a service for RePEc at http://nep.repec.org. I want to work on creating similar services for areas other than economics. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel

[GOAL] announcing OAI9 in Geneva 17-19 June 2015

2014-09-15 Thread Thomas Krichel
lists the Twitter feed and hashtag for the meeting. On behalf of the OAI9 Programme Committee, I look forward to seeing you in the University of Geneva to hear news of current developments in scholarly communication. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home

[GOAL] Re: [Open-access] Fight Publishing Lobby's Latest FIRST Act to Delay OA - Nth Successor to PRISM, RWA etc.

2013-11-18 Thread Thomas Krichel
that, at current speed, we can wait for centuries to achieve open access. In the meantime, the publishing industry can use the subscription revenue bonanza to effectively lobby for any change to be on its terms. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel

[GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits

2013-10-05 Thread Thomas Krichel
subscriptions. Faculty who have not made their work open access just don't deserve it to be read or cited. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier Keeps Revising Its Double-Talk (But Remains Fully Green)

2013-09-25 Thread Thomas Krichel
Friend, Fred writes I am sorry to be cynical, but the academic community gets the contracts it deserves. We have to learn to say no and really mean it. Say no to what? And how will you make sure what you say is matched by what you do? -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier Keeps Revising Its Double-Talk (But Remains Fully Green)

2013-09-25 Thread Thomas Krichel
other publishers are just as expensive. The only ones who have clout here are libraries. They can cancel subscriptions. It's the only message publishers will understand. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel

[GOAL] Re: Disruption vs. Protection

2013-09-16 Thread Thomas Krichel
. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] Re: Journal cancellations are primarily about journal costs

2013-09-16 Thread Thomas Krichel
would have incentives to take up your suggestions. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http

[GOAL] Re: Censorship? Seriously? (Re: Re: [sparc-oaforum] Re: Disruption vs. Protection)

2013-09-16 Thread Thomas Krichel
institutional visibility. And it is beneficial globally as it increases incentives for academics to make papers available in IRs or with open access publishers because otherwise they loose more impact. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel

[GOAL] Re: Aaron Swartz RIP

2013-01-13 Thread Thomas Krichel
citation links would give them advertizing. We never got anywhere with them. When I became aware of Aaron's actions I was pleased this may raise awareness of JSTOR's locking away historic scholarly contents behind their firewall with no prospects of ever releasing it. Cheers, Thomas

[GOAL] Re: New Year's challenge for repository developers and managers: awesome cross-search

2013-01-11 Thread Thomas Krichel
-with-the-public-api An API is not the same thing as a stock of data that is freely available. For example CrossRef also has an API, you can conduct searches but you will never know if/when you have the complete data. Neither ORCID nor CrossRef are open access. Cheers, Thomas Krichel

[GOAL] Re: New Year's challenge for repository developers and managers: awesome cross-search

2013-01-04 Thread Thomas Krichel
the accessibility of OA content and not just that of commercial publishers and content providers. ORCID itself is not an open access initiative. It's a step backwards. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http

[GOAL] Re: New Year's challenge for repository developers and managers: awesome cross-search

2013-01-04 Thread Thomas Krichel
. ORCID say there will be some dump of some data made available on an annual basis. That's not enough to build a service on the data that require bulk instantaneous access to the data. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel

[GOAL] Re: Fwd: Dark Side of Openness: Identity Theft and Fraudulent Postings By Predatory OA Publishers

2012-12-18 Thread Thomas Krichel
material they obtained for free and that was reviewed for them for free. Surely the amounts wasted on open access publishing dwarf the sum spent on library subscriptions to buy access to articles that nobody ever seems to cite, so probably nobody ever reads. Cheers, Thomas Krichel

[GOAL] OAI8 at the University of Geneva. 19-21 June 2013

2012-10-18 Thread Thomas Krichel
, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http

[GOAL] Re: Agreement on Green OA not needed from publishers but from institutions and funders

2012-06-21 Thread Thomas Krichel
is not fair to compare both approaches. But that's precise what the Finch report is doing. L'appétit vient en mangeant... On ne fait pas d'omelette sans casser des œufs. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http

[GOAL] Re: Research Works Act H.R.3699: The Private Publishing Tail Trying Again To Wag The Public Research Dog

2012-01-12 Thread Thomas Krichel
with this? Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL

[GOAL] Re: op-ed on Research Works Act in today's NYT

2012-01-11 Thread Thomas Krichel
somebody agrees with what I have been saying for years. It is libraries, rather than publishers or researchers, that hold back open access. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1

[GOAL] Re: op-ed on Research Works Act in today's NYT

2012-01-11 Thread Thomas Krichel
... Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL

Re: Open Access Doubts

2011-10-30 Thread Thomas Krichel
is not reducing the cost of the other, it just adds to the total cost. It is time to reduce expenditure on the former to build the latter. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1

Re: Scattered works of a researcher

2011-09-02 Thread Thomas Krichel
. But discussing details here would be too technical. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel

Re: Rights Reductio Ad Absurdum

2011-01-10 Thread Thomas Krichel
of the paper was a permissions issue. Their official version was a technical error. ECDL still publish with Springer, without open access. Yet the same people who go to ECDL hang around the open access meetings. I guess it is a case of do what I say, don't do what I do. Cheers, Thomas

Re: Open Archives and their Significance in the Communication of Science, Workshop in Uppsala November 16 ? 17

2010-09-07 Thread Thomas Krichel
who has been working on usage statistics for many years now. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorclaim.org/profile/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel

Re: Special OAIster Announcement from OCLC

2009-09-25 Thread Thomas Krichel
, an OAI-PHM data users, polite for OAI-PMH data exegetes list is probably a good idea. I'd be happy to run it, but I don't want to be the only member. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel

Special OAIster Announcement from OCLC

2009-09-18 Thread Thomas Krichel
to suggest that OAIster will become part of a toll-gated product. I suspect that the RePEc community will not be very much amused to see OCLC making a commercial gain on what RePEc have collected for free use. What do others think? Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp

Re: Special OAIster Announcement from OCLC

2009-09-18 Thread Thomas Krichel
://visit.oclc.org/t?ctl=26B403F:09562C313F0DE2FB62E0BBD7DFD73DADF544A2D6437664E7; asks me to nominate an IP address to receive free access to OAIster from. Meaning that the IP addresses will no have free access. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel

Re: [AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM] Repositories: Institutional or Central ? [in French, from Rector's blog, U. Li�ge]

2009-02-05 Thread Thomas Krichel
Arthur Sale writes I totally disagree that researchers should be free to deposit where they will. This one of the basic tennants of academic fredom. Instititutional mandates reduce that freedom. That's why I, and many other academics, oppose mandates. Cheers, Thomas Krichel

Re: Repositories: Institutional or Central ? [in French, from Rector's blog, U. Li�ge]

2009-02-05 Thread Thomas Krichel
, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel skype: thomaskrichel

Re: Convergent IR Deposit Mandates vs. Divergent CR Deposit Mandates

2008-08-03 Thread Thomas Krichel
makes RePEc archives so successful. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel skype: thomaskrichel

Re: Convergent IR Deposit Mandates vs. Divergent CR Deposit Mandates

2008-07-26 Thread Thomas Krichel
this is precisely what I am working on. Thus is the same way that I have been battling for years to set up RePEc, against all odds since no such system had been set up, I am now battling to on these registries. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel

Re: Harnad's faulty thinking on OA deposit and APA policy

2008-07-25 Thread Thomas Krichel
. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel skype: thomaskrichel

Re: Harnad's faulty thinking on OA deposit and APA policy

2008-07-24 Thread Thomas Krichel
there. If the university wants a copy they can download it from the funders' site. and conflicts of interest. What conflicts? Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel

Re: Publisher Proxy Deposit Is A Potential Trojan Horse

2008-03-20 Thread Thomas Krichel
the creator of RePEc and involved in E-LIS. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel phone: +7 383 330 6813 skype: thomaskrichel

Re: Publisher Proxy Deposit Is A Potential Trojan Horse

2008-03-20 Thread Thomas Krichel
of RePEc and involved in E-LIS. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel phone: +7 383 330 6813 skype: thomaskrichel

Re: Central versus institutional self-archiving

2008-03-08 Thread Thomas Krichel
. Your memory is indeed fading. The Santa Fe meeting was informed by work of a group of authors: Herbert Van de Sompel, Thomas Krichel, Michael L. Nelson, Patrick Hochstenbach, Victor M. Lyapunov, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair, Mohamed Kholief, Xiaoming Liu, and Heath O'Connell, The UPS Prototype

Re: How to Compare IRs and CRs

2008-02-17 Thread Thomas Krichel
that we can agree that, from today's perspective, filling IRs until we achieve 100% open access will be a very very long process. With cheers from Novosibirsk (sunny, -13C), Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965

Re: How to Compare IRs and CRs

2008-02-09 Thread Thomas Krichel
not notice that this spontaneous formula has utterly failed to generalize to all other disciplines for well over a decade now, I may be dump, but I am not deluded. I do notice. The problem is that there are not enough pioneers such as Paul Ginsparg and Thomas Krichel. And they don't get enough

Re: How to Compare IRs and CRs

2008-02-09 Thread Thomas Krichel
that a mandate really can work. I am not saying that mandates IRs are wrong, but relying exclusively on them is failing to realize other opportunities. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05

Re: Central versus institutional self-archiving

2004-06-11 Thread Thomas Krichel
the new medium allows so much more freedom. Cheers, Thomas Krichel mailto:kric...@openlib.org visiting CO PAH, Novosibirsk http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel

Re: Workshop on Open Access

2004-03-21 Thread Thomas Krichel
is not a centralized archive. It is an archival system that has itself more than 350 archives contributing to it. CiteSeer is not an archive at all. Thomas Krichel mailto:kric...@openlib.org http://openlib.org/home/krichel

Re: Setting up an institutional archive: some experiences

2004-02-10 Thread Thomas Krichel
for this purpose, see http://lists.openlib.org/mailman/listinfo/oai-eprints I set it up as an outcome of the last CERN OAI workshop. Cheers, Thomas Krichel mailto:kric...@openlib.org http://openlib.org/home/krichel

Re: Author Publication Charge Debate

2004-02-10 Thread Thomas Krichel
, $$$, I don't see how EconLit will survive in the longer run. Cheers, Thomas Krichel mailto:kric...@openlib.org http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel

Re: New channel of support for open-access publishing

2004-01-14 Thread Thomas Krichel
Stevan Harnad writes On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Thomas Krichel wrote: $1500 per paper should be amply sufficient to fund the publishing operation. I suggest that libraries support other ventures with more moderate charges. Thomas, did you mean $500 ? Otherwise your posting does

Third Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative

2003-10-27 Thread Thomas Krichel
Announcement [crossposted] CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication: Implementing the benefits of OAI 3rd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI3) LIBER, SPARC and SPARC-Europe, and the CERN Library are organising the third OAI workshop at CERN, Geneva (Switzerland) on

Re: Central vs. Distributed Archives

2003-09-09 Thread Thomas Krichel
. The crucial part, though, it RePEc's author registration service. Cheers, Thomas Krichel mailto:kric...@openlib.org from Espoo, Finlandhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel

Re: Free Access vs. Open Access

2003-08-16 Thread Thomas Krichel
, in that way you minimize cost on a central collection. The RePEc collection illustrates this masterfully. Cheers, Thomas Krichel mailto:kric...@openlib.org visiting CO PAH, Novosibirsk http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05

Re: Free Access vs. Open Access

2003-08-16 Thread Thomas Krichel
for each academic, not just collectively rational for the academic community as a whole. This is not a trivial task. We need to have freely-available conventional abstract and indexing data, as well as evaluative data. Cheers, Thomas Krichel mailto:kric

Re: The RePEc (Economics) Model

2003-03-19 Thread Thomas Krichel
, Belarus, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel

Re: The RePEc (Economics) Model

2003-03-19 Thread Thomas Krichel
/disk0/00/00/16/99/ (Thomas Krichel argued against central archiving, Nope. I simply argued that the centralized model would not carry through to many disciplines. Where it worked it was certainly an extremely good model. But you insisted that because the Physcists had done it everyone

Re: The RePEc (Economics) Model

2003-03-19 Thread Thomas Krichel
project. Thus we can furnish researches with precise data to see how much the papers that they have been making available are accessed. With greetings from Minsk, Belarus, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05

Re: Cliff Lynch on Institutional Archives

2003-03-18 Thread Thomas Krichel
of disciplinary archives, because some of them will be prepared with the specifics of an aggregator in mind. With greetings from Minsk, Belarus, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel

Re: Cliff Lynch on Institutional Archives

2003-03-18 Thread Thomas Krichel
of finding a solution. With greetings from Minsk, Belarus, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel

Re: Cliff Lynch on Institutional Archives

2003-03-16 Thread Thomas Krichel
. They should be conceived as instruments to incentivize authors to contribute to formal archives. With greetings from Minsk, Belarus, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel

Re: Cliff Lynch on Institutional Archives

2003-03-16 Thread Thomas Krichel
way, departmental is another way, discipline based archiving another, but there is no right or wrong way. Whatever way there is discipline-based services will be a key to providing incentives to scholars. With greetings from Minsk, Belarus, Thomas Krichel http

Re: Need for systematic scientometric analyses of open-access data

2002-12-21 Thread Thomas Krichel
and by no intents and purposes a scholarly journal. Some contents are short full texts, others are summaries of articles in the magazine, and some are short news items. But this is by no means the full contents of the magazine, I should think. Cheers, Thomas Krichel

Re: Need for systematic scientometric analyses of open-access data

2002-12-21 Thread Thomas Krichel
to publish there. Can anyone tell me how an organization can cash in $9 Million, over 5 years, and not be able to operate two, presumably online, journals with this money without charging a submission fee, for at least the time that the subsidy runs for? Cheers, Thomas Krichel

Re: Interoperability - subject classification/terminology

2002-11-25 Thread Thomas Krichel
/index.php ). Yes but all those services require discipline based, relational dataset to be precise. Cheers, Thomas Krichel mailto:kric...@openlib.org http://openlib.org/home/krichel

Re: Book on future of STM publishers

2002-07-22 Thread Thomas Krichel
changes to the thesis? Universities should preserve the students' works, because students don't have the lifespan to take on that task. This is a principle that should be medium-independent. Cheers, Thomas Krichel mailto:kric...@openlib.org

Re: Book on future of STM publishers

2002-07-21 Thread Thomas Krichel
through Eprints, and pay for this by not buying dissertations produced anywhere else, or reduce serials holdings. Cheers, Thomas Krichel mailto:kric...@openlib.org http://openlib.org/home/krichel

Re: Book on future of STM publishers

2002-07-18 Thread Thomas Krichel
it is not freely available online. If the FOS movement can not convince scholars in scholarly communication to make their work freely available online, we do have a problem. I would like to understand what the problem is here. Cheers, Thomas Krichel

Re: What About the Author Self-Archiving of Books?

2002-07-18 Thread Thomas Krichel
be a handful of people on campus who read that language. That brings me back to my earlier point about the automated translation. Cheers, Thomas Krichel mailto:kric...@openlib.org http://openlib.org/home/krichel

Re: Ingenta to offer OAI eprint service

2002-07-16 Thread Thomas Krichel
initative for economics. I have had my fair share of arguments with Stevan in the past, but on this occasion :-), he is spot on right, there is nothing to worry about. Cheers, Thomas Krichel mailto:kric...@openlib.org

Re: What About the Author Self-Archiving of Books?

2002-07-16 Thread Thomas Krichel
Stevan Harnad writes On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Thomas Krichel wrote: Not so simple. What do you mean? He does not give away, I do not read. Two simple choices by two individuals. It has no bearing on the general issues. Then why post it to this Forum, which is concerned

Re: EPrints Handbook

2002-06-18 Thread Thomas Krichel
. Yes, but David Cahill is right that you can not build many good services with the oai_dc metadata. For your data, we rely on massaging cdl data into RePEc's internal format to deliver the services that we do. We really need better data and better metadata. Cheers, Thomas Krichel

Re: Interview with Derk Haank, CEO, Elsevier

2002-04-02 Thread Thomas Krichel
it on another web site. On an open archive managed by someone else ? The concept of own web site is a fuzzy one. Salut, Thomas Krichel mailto:kric...@openlib.org http://openlib.org/home/krichel

Re: Elsevier's ChemWeb Preprint Archive

2001-04-16 Thread Thomas Krichel
in marketing, which is as area that is further away from economics. Thus it has more to do with established behaviour rather than flexibility towards a new behaviour. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06

Re: Open Archives Initiative

2001-03-27 Thread Thomas Krichel
ps, there is just today an interesting article in the Cronicle of HE Scholars Urge a Boycott of Journals That Won't Release Articles to Free Archives http://chronicle.com/free/2001/03/2001032601t.htm Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel

Re: Citation and Rejection Statistics for Eprints and Ejournals

2001-02-15 Thread Thomas Krichel
Unions, Working Party on Scientific Publication, Committee on Free Circulation of Scientific Ideas, XXV meeting, Aachen, Germany, 1991, pp 55423-87. [2] International Standards Organization, ISO/TC 297/SC 42/WG 3 N 8/ Revision 25b/ 1981-10-32. Cheers, Thomas Krichel

Re: Evaluation of preprint/postprint servers

2000-12-14 Thread Thomas Krichel
for further screening. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel 2000-10-05 to 2001-01-06: Institute for Economic Research / Hitotsubashi University 2-1 Naka / Kunitachi / Tokyo 186-8603

Re: Central vs. Distributed Archives

2000-11-09 Thread Thomas Krichel
outweight by other advantages, such as distributed costs, minimum quality control, and wide community partipation. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel 2000-10-05 to 2001-01

Re: Legal ways around copyright for one's own giveaway texts

2000-07-10 Thread Thomas Krichel
in the proceedings. I presume that I will still be able to present the paper. It will simply not appear in the conference proceedings, which I consider to be a minor inconvenience. Has anybody here stories to share about copyright surrender refusal? Cheers, Thomas Krichel

Re: EPRINTS = PREPRINTS (unrefereed) + POSTPRINTS (refereed)

2000-05-18 Thread Thomas Krichel
it to the tendency of informal archiving in homepages. My impression is that formal archiving is relatively declining, whereas informal archiving is on the increase. I see the OAi as an attempt of formal archivers to regain initiative. Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home

Re: BioMed Central and new publishing models

2000-02-08 Thread Thomas Krichel
to another company, who may hold different beliefs than yours? Thomas Krichel http://gretel.econ.surrey.ac.uk RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel

Re: NIH's Public Archive for the Refereed Literature: PUBMED CENTRAL

1999-09-05 Thread Thomas Krichel
for those who are involved in dissemination to perform the tasks that they are already doing. p.s. Note that these remarks should not be regarded as a comment on the NIH proprosal, they simply sum up the experience of my six years of work in this area. Thomas Krichel

Re: Serials Review Interview

1998-10-15 Thread Thomas Krichel
not be optimal to consider xxx as the only possible model. Cheers, Thomas Krichel mailto:t.kric...@surrey.ac.uk http://gretel.econ.surrey.ac.uk