On Fri Jan 09 2004, I posted a message about self-archiving a postprint of mine in the CogPrints archive, see: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3384.html
It's a postprint of an invited, peer-reviewed, edited commentary, about cancer-related electronic support groups. I've retained copyright. On April 21 (2004), a version of the postprint became openly-accessible in the CogPrints archive, via: http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00003566/ By April 24, it had already been harvested by Google. Today, (April 25) when I did a Google search using the keywords "Electronic support groups" (including the quotation marks), I was surprised to find that the version in the CogPrints archive was ranked within the top 10 (at #5) in the entire ranked list of links that was obtained. A link to an online abstract page of the published version (in a subscription-based journal, Journal of Cancer Integrative Medicine 2004; 2: 21-24) is at: http://www.pnpco.com/pn14007.html (this link was ranked #40 in the list of links obtained via the same Google search). Interesting? Jim Till University of Toronto
