On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, www.djournals.net wrote: > Digital Journals (TM) have launched our inaugural call for papers. > Digital Journals (TM) are a collection of Journals published on the > Internet. > > We do not peer review your research but allow the academic community to > judge and incorporate the research into the knowledge base. > > This is done by encouraging reply and follow up letters and articles > which are linked to the original paper. > > Digital Journals are able to provide rapid publication of all papers, > from a quick case report to a full-length thesis. > > Teaching notes, lecture series and conference reports can all be > published as an ideal method to disseminate the information and allow > access to the material.
I posted the Digital Journals Call to allow me to underscore the profound difference between the American Scientist Forum's objective of freeing the refereed journal literature on-line, and alternative efforts to provide free on-line literature such as this one. As it stands, Digital Journals is providing authors with a free Vanity Press + Online Opinion Poll. No doubt there is a niche for this too (there is plenty of room in Cyberspace), but it is certainly not the niche we are endeavoring to fill in this Forum. Let us wish the DJ initiative well, but let us in no way confuse or conflate its means or ends with those of this Forum. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stevan Harnad [email protected] Professor of Cognitive Science [email protected] Department of Electronics and phone: +44 23-80 592-582 Computer Science fax: +44 23-80 592-865 University of Southampton http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ Highfield, Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/ SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM NOTE: A complete archive of this ongoing discussion of providing free access to the refereed journal literature is available at the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00): http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html You may join the list at the site above. Discussion can be posted to: [email protected]
