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It is hard to know if it differs from the GAP project when the URL Thomas gave us leads only to one page with an e-mail. Can you clarify, Thomas? As for funding, research is funded by governments and publishing should be made a part of research funding. Waving the fearful banner of unreliable government funding is totally gratuitous here as 1. Many government programs have been run for decades if not centuries. Scientific research is one of them; 2. Private companies are jknown to go belly up with some regularity and then all hell breaks loose. The reality is that all human endeavours are fragile, not only governmental ones. As to the fickle nature of government policies, it is rarely exceeded, except by the fickle nature of corporate decisions driven, as they are, by stockholders' greed and the profit motive. Best, Jean-Claude Guédon Le dimanche 17 février 2008 à 16:21 +0600, Thomas Krichel a écrit : Jean Kempf writes > The project is the first of its kind How does it differ from the (failed?) GAP project http://www.gap-portal.de/ > and, if funded, is intended to start in September 2008. Could not such a project be running without funding? Looking at GAP, it was ok when the DFG funded it, when that money ran out, it went South. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel phone: +7 383 330 6813 skype: thomaskrichel Jean-Claude Guédon Université de Montréal