I am not so sure that I focus more on "ought" than "is". Public money is already
deeply integrated into scientific and scholarly publishing in a wide variety of
ways: direct subsidies, in-kind subsidies through the use of publicly-supported
facilities, tax breaks, etc. The SciELO model keeps recurr
On 17-Feb-10, at 6:19 AM, Richard Poynder wrote:
However, I think Jean-Claude is more focussed on âoughtâ than âisâ.
True, he
proposes an existing service (Brazil's SciELO) as a model for the
future,
but given the way that researchers are motivated by their institutions
and
their fun
On 17 Feb 2010, at 17:06, Dana Roth wrote:
> Isn't it more likely that researchers would be extra 'busy' trying to sort
> out what is relevant from everything else on the web?
No. Are you suggesting that researchers are incapable of distinguishing
research from "everything else on the web"? Wit
I agree with Jean-Claude, let's make the axis of interest research-open access,
and leave the business of publishing to others. Otherwise, we introduce a
fourth OA bogeyman, confusion, of which there is already far more than needed.
Much as I admire Richard's tenacious journalism, and an eye for
On 17 Feb 2010, at 10:56, Jan Szczepanski wrote:
> Publishers are indispensible even today.
Without researchers, academic journal publishers would have nothing to publish.
Without publishers, researchers would still be very busy indeed doing research.
They would probably also have worked out a w
Andrew A. Adams wrote:
>> From:Jan Szczepanski
>> Subject: Re: Is the "request copy" button good for OA?
>>
>> The problem with the green way is mainly that it is a parasitic and has
>> no life of it's own.
>> More like a virus. The way scientists has taken is the golden road. That
>> is creat
I agree with much of what Jean-Claude says, particularly his (implied?)
suggestion that there is no obvious role for commercial publishers in an OA
environment. That seems to me to be becoming more and more obvious each day
that passes.
However, I think Jean-Claude is more focussed on ?ought? than
Isn't it more likely that researchers would be extra 'busy' trying to sort out
what is relevant from everything else on the web?
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Alas, this whole discussion continues to assume that publishing must rest
mainly on organizations that behave like businesses (hence the call for
sustainability) and often are busineses. Why should they not be treated as
services integral to the research cycle of activities (which should include
