A letter of mine has recently appeared in the printed version of the June/July issue of "University Affairs" (a publication of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada; it's distributed to faculty members across Canada). My letter is in response to an article entitled "Publishing freestyle", that appeared in the May issue of the same publication. The original article is freely available online (via: http://www.aucc.ca/en/archbody.html#may02 ). Comments about the Budapest Open Archives Initiative, and about Stevan Harnad's efforts, are included in the original article. Here's an excerpt:
"Stevan Harnad, who holds a Canada Research Chair in perception and language at the Université du Québec à Montréal and founded the influential journal, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, is a huge booster of open-access scholarly publishing. He is one of the principal signatories of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, which has as its goal the free and unrestricted availability of all scholarly research online." An online version of my letter isn't available via the www.aucc.ca website, but I've deposited an open-access copy in my personal Kepler "archivelet". It's already been cached by the Kepler Service Provider, and is available via: http://makeashorterlink.com/?P1E015F01 An excerpt from my letter: "Another intriguing example of the kind of academic research that is currently under way in this field is the "Kepler project" of the Digital Library Research Group at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia (see: http://kepler.cs.odu.edu/ ). The intent of this project is to develop digital electronic archives for individuals ("archivelets")." Jim Till University of Toronto
