Stevan, I think this should be considered from a wider perspective. Of course open archiving will give us permanent and free access to the scientific record. But we also need permanent access to what has already been published, and what will be published in the near future, until open archiving has been successful. Even for material published under both systems, a research library will feel that both forms need to be preserved.
Eventually the copyright on conventionally published material will expire (presumably) and this material can be made freely accessible. But since some publishers do figure that they can make money distributing past content, we still need something for the next one hundred years. It's a shame that it may have to be charged for, but it is better to have the scientific record preserved properly, even at conventional publersher's costs, than not preserved at all. > > So if you are interested in open-access archiving you are unlikely to > find much that is useful at this ALPSP archiving workshop (except if the > technical issues prove to surface more substantially than anticipated > in the ALPSP notice). > Dr. David Goodman Princeton University Library and Palmer School of Library and Information Science [email protected]
