16/12/2002 05:00:10, Automatic digest processor
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>If and when the (500,000?) authors of the annual 2,000,000 articles
>self-archive their peer-reviewed final drafts ("postprints") in their
>own institutional OAI-compliant Eprint Archives (all interoperable with one
>another, harvestable, hence seamlessly internavigable), that primary goal
>will be reached. (You may have doubts about whether authors will indeed
>go ahead and self-archive, but I hope you don't disagree that if/when
>they do, self-archiving *does* get us to the goal of open access to the
>entire peer-reviewed literature.)
I am glad you didn't say 'free' Open Access; apart from the non-trivial
questions of
how such a seamless system would be organised technically and
organisationally, how will it be paid for?
Another consideration; how will developing countries access this store?
Barry Mahon, Executive Director, ICSTI, The International Council for Scientific
and Technical Information.
P.S. Thank you for the comprehensive summary of your position on OA.
