Does anyone know if there are any open public forums currently concerned with the problem of extending the principles of the Ginsparg archives across academia generally?
This is not to be confused with forums devoted to "freeing the refereed journal literature on-line" (such as the present forum) nor with forums concerned with establishing a "free vanity press" for professional literature, if any such actually exist -- which is questionable since the term "vanity press" has its home as a term of rhetorical denigration in the domain of commercial rather than professional publication. The present forum has apparently reached the stage where there seems to be little to be said that cannot be answered by mechanized use of boilerplate and URLs, yet there is obviously much yet to be said and done if Ginsparg's initiative is to be carried through as far as it is feasible to do so. If that is to happen, though, there has to be OPEN internet discussion of the problems and possibilities that engages the interest of the people who might actually help make it happen. The question is, is that happening anywhere? Or has that movement now been safely contained by being subsumed -- or is the word "co-opted"? -- by Harnad's self-archiving initiative, about which there appears to be nothing more to say other than "I wonder when those horses will start drinking?" I understand what the Santa Fe interoperability initiative is and why it is important to pursue it, by the way, but that is not what I am asking about. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joseph Ransdell [email protected] [email protected] Dept of Philosophy 806 742-3275 Home: 806 797-2592 Texas Tech University - Lubbock, Texas 79409 USA http://www.door.net/arisbe (Peirce Gateway website) http://www.door.net/arisbe/homepage/ransdell.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
