On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Mark Doyle wrote: > This "gov't should not be involved" is a slippery slope. What happens > to funding for: > > 1) Harvard-Smithsonian's ADS service > 2) PubMed, Medline, and PubMedCentral > 3) arXiv.org > > All of these are more than worthy of gov't support in my opinion > and so is PubSCIENCE. There is no mandate that out-moded > business models should be preserved at all costs. To be > sure this is the real point of attacking PubSCIENCE. SIIA wants > to push us down that slope.
I agree completely, and would add only that distributed, international, interoperable, university-based archiving, reliably mirrored, duplicated and cached, will be our best hedge against any particular centralized or governmental caprices in the future. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 the ongoing discussion of providing free access to the refereed journal literature online is available at the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01): 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]
