Steve, you have the numbers right but the implications backwards: > > > If old versions of Word are a problem, then WE (the preachers) ought > > to remove those impediments to getting it into archives. > > WE preachers are few, whereas THEY (authors) are many (about 2,000,000 > peer-reviewed journal articles are published annually).
The conclusion I would draw from it is that it is easier to get the few preachers to change, than the many authors. .. similarly, > > They are in the Eprints documentation. Every Eprints Archive need only > inform its depositor community. And this attitude is, as every librarian knows, unrealistic. We have devoted enormous effort to making sure that users read documentation. Almost none of them do. The sort that do, become librarians. It is up to the professionals running the systems to make sure they work for the ordinary users, ignorant as they may be of what is important to us. > > Stevan Harnad > Dr. David Goodman Princeton University Library and Palmer School of Library and Information Science, LIU [email protected]
