At 11:21 AM 8/30/00 -0400, Peter Singer wrote:
In response to the critiques of my original post, I have published an article on freedom of information and incentives. I argue that the literature will only be truly free when incentives in science are designed to reward rather than penalize open access publication.
I agree that researchers need more incentive to make their articles freely accessible on the Web. Otherwise they would already be self-archiving. Where this incentive is likely to come from is documented in a recent essay by Andrew Odlyzko (http://www.si.umich.edu/PEAK-2000/odlyzko.pdf). As Odlyzko concludes, "The realization will spread that anything not easily available on the Web will be almost invisible. ...ease of access will be seen as vital." Tom Walker ========================================================================= Thomas J. Walker Department of Entomology & Nematology University of Florida, PO Box 110620, Gainesville, FL 32611-0620 E-mail: [email protected] FAX: (352)392-0190 Web: http://csssrvr.entnem.ufl.edu/~walker/tjwbib/walker.htm =========================================================================
