Cross-Posting and Quote/Commentary

2008-10-09 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Dan Brickley wrote: > I've every confidence in Steven's ability to moderate here, in his > energy, enthusiasm and contribution to the cause. We have a lot to be > grateful for. > > Reading this thread, it does seem that editorial-style annotations on > postings ar

Re: Call for a vote of nonconfidence in the moderator of the AmSci Forum

2008-10-09 Thread Dan Brickley
I've every confidence in Steven's ability to moderate here, in his energy, enthusiasm and contribution to the cause. We have a lot to be grateful for. Reading this thread, it does seem that editorial-style annotations on postings are better handled separately. Spam-filtering, editorialising, and l

Re: Brisbane declaration on Open Access (fwd)

2008-10-09 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
Perhaps it's worth just pointing out that the Version of Record is not necessarily in PDF format   Sally     Sally Morris Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy) South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel:  +44(0)1903 871286 Fax:  +44(0)8701 20

Re: Call for a vote of nonconfidence in the moderator of the AmSci Forum

2008-10-09 Thread Jean-Max
OK. Stevan has my vote. Jean-Max Noyer Université de Paris7 Le 9 oct. 08 à 14:09, Ingegerd Rabow a écrit : My confidence vote for Stevan Ingegerd Rabow Lund, Sweden -Original Message- From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-sc

Re: Call for a vote of nonconfidence in the moderator of the AmSci Forum

2008-10-09 Thread Ingegerd Rabow
My confidence vote for Stevan Ingegerd Rabow Lund, Sweden -Original Message- From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Jeffery, KG (Keith) Sent: den 9 oktober 2008 06:20 To: american-scientist-open-acces

University of Glasgow announces new Publications Policy

2008-10-09 Thread Morag Greig
** Apologies for cross-posting** University of Glasgow announces new Publications Policy The University of Glasgow is proud to announce a new Publications Policy which will require authors to deposit the full text of peer reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings in the University's

Re: Brisbane declaration on Open Access (fwd)

2008-10-09 Thread Arthur Sale
This declaration has got swallowed up amongst the c**P that has polluted this forum in the last days. May I tease out a few strands of the Brisbane Declaration for readers of the list, as a person who was at the OAR Conference in Brisbane.   1.  The Declaration was adopted on the voices at the C

Re: Brisbane declaration on Open Access (fwd)

2008-10-09 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 9-Oct-08, at 7:37 AM, Peter D. Mosses wrote: > Could you clarify the following point: > >> 5. At the same time, it was widely recognized that publishers' pdfs >> ("Versions of Record") were not the preferred version of an article to >> hold in a repository, primarily because a pdf is a print-b

Re: Call for a vote of nonconfidence in the moderator of the AmSci Forum

2008-10-09 Thread Jeffery, KG (Keith)
[ The following text is in the "utf-8" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "iso-8859-1" character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] And me (on pda travelling) Prof Keith G Jeffery -Original Message- From: "Alma Swan" To: "american-scientist