At 21:10 31/03/2004, Armel Le Bail wrote: >...who are the cows producing the milk ? You and me...
Armel, you can't be a cow and also consume butter & milkmaids ! >The AMCSD... target is a global database of all minerals, >and maybe more, the funds come from the NSF... >IUCr journals propose now the possibility to place your >papers in open access, the cost is 800 US$ ...expensive. IUCr, like the American Mineralogists, have to get money from somewhere to continue publishing. Is that really a better solution ? Even you and I are paid salaries (unlike cows). IUCr have done a great job in putting ALL Acta papers on-line. They have also declined your proposal that they "contribute" data to COD and recommend that people support existing databases instead. So how about helping raise money from the French equivalent of NSF for that purpose ? Alan. Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble, FRANCE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fax (33) 4.76.20.76.48 (33) 4.76.20.72.13 (.26 Mme Guillermet) http://www.ill.fr/dif/AlanHewat.htm ___________________________________________________________
