And when I advocate institutional repositories to link up together to form a network (such as D-Space institutions are beginning to do, I believe I am at the planning stage, as I am when I add that these institutional networks can organize editorial boards of faculties of 1,000. If planning a first, then a second, then a third step, that is still planning, not speculating.
jcg On Tue October 5 2004 09:02 am, Stevan Harnad wrote: > On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, David Goodman wrote: > > Where do you, personally, draw the line between planning and speculation? > > The short answer is that planning is based on the extrapolation of > current trends, based on the evidence and reasoning, and speculation is > the positing of jumps, discontinuities or other contingencies for which > there is little or no current evidence. > > Speculation can of course be right or wrong. And I am quite as capable > of speculating and counterspeculating as anyone else (and have done > more than my share of it!). But what is now abundantly clear from the > overlong (at least 10-year) history of Open Access (OA), is that it has > been very long on speculation and very short on OA. Extrapolating that, > one comes to the rational conclusion that it might now be a better idea > to speculate less and provide OA more. > > (Besides, every OA speculation and counterspeculation has by now > been heard, many, many times over! It is boring, and gets research > access/impact absolutely nowhere, no matter how much fun it may be > [for the speculator and counterspeculator] to keep doing.) > > Stevan Harnad > > AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: > A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing > open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004) > is available at: > http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html > To join or leave the Forum or change your subscription address: > http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum. >html Post discussion to: > [email protected] > > UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional > policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, > please describe your policy at: > http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php > > UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: > BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access > journal whenever one exists. > http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals > BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable > toll-access journal and also self-archive it. > http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ > http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
