On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Lars Aronsson wrote: > Is any university appointing new professors or teachers based on > contributions to open archives or open e-journals only, simply > ignoring any printed or non-open works, yet?
No, and they won't, and shouldn't: (1) Self-archiving a paper in an open-access eprint archive is not a publication. If it is an unrefereed preprint, it is an unrefereed preprint. If it is a peer-reviewed postprint, then it is published in the journal that peer-reviewed it. Self-archiving is a way of increasing the usage and impact of research, before and after publication, by maximizing access. It is not publication. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm#1.4 (2) Open-access journals are journals, just as toll-access journals are. Their CV/promotion-publish/perish value depends, as with all journals, on their individual reputations, quality-levels, peer-review standards, and impact factors. But being open-access, they stand to have higher visibility and impact (just as do the author-self-archived articles published in toll-access journals). http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/Ariadne-RAE.htm (3) It would be both foolish and unjust of promotion/funding panels to ignore printed or non-open-access work. But it is quite natural for users to prefer it, especially if they can't afford the toll-access work. So the outcome (ignoring the inaccessible or hard-to-access work) is similar. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/unto-others.html > If I contribute an article to an open archive or e-journal, can I set > a license (GNU GPL or Creative Commons style) that effectively > prohibits its results from being quoted or used in non-open archives? > (I guess not.) You can set any rules you like. Getting them obeyed is another matter. But why on earth would a researcher, writing for research impact, want to make an arbitrary and counterproductive rule like that in the first place? http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/index.html > Is anybody teaching courses only using openly available papers? Many courses are taking the path of least resistance (web-accessible materials), just as researchers are. > Is anybody doing research into the questions above? No doubt; especially the new scientometricians, for research; "pedagometrics" will surely come next. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2523.html http://www.interdisciplines.org/defispublicationweb/papers/17/5/1 Stevan Harnad
