[From: FOS Newsletter http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z53834B71 ]
Interview with Ingenta CEO Mark Rowse
In my last issue (FOSN for 6/17/02) I wondered why Ingenta had appointed
such an FOS-friendly advisory board. Ingenta produces electronic editions
of scholarly journals for publishers of print
The posting on July 18th from Stevan relates to email messages sent to
both Stevan and Ingenta by myself and the Electronic Publishing Trust
(EPT), respectively. I would like to make clear that we were not
concerned about copyright issues, the legitimate activities of
commercial organisations,
No. Someone is (passively) failing to provide free access to their own
contributions to those journals, and that someone is the author of each
and every article appearing therein (with the exception of a growing
number of physicists and a few other disciplines at last beginning to
No. Someone is (passively) failing to provide free access to their own
contributions to those journals, and that someone is the author of each
and every article appearing therein (with the exception of a growing
number of physicists and a few other disciplines at last beginning to
...it is a waste of time ranting and raving against toll-access
publishers, overpriced or not: They (including Ingenta) are simply doing
what they can and should be doing: Providing toll-access as long as
there is a demand for it.
On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, [identity removed] wrote:
I don't think
This is a reply to another commentator's expression of concern (excerpt
will be quoted shortly) about the license that Southampton University has
given to Ingenta to develop a commercial service to install, customize
and maintain Eprints Archives for Universities who wish to purchase such
a
Dear Stevan:
I hear that Eprints has entered into an agreement with Ingenta and that
future versions of Eprints software may not be free. Is it true? Is this
an admission that the Open access movement is losing momentum and even the
greatest of its champions is entering into an agreement with a
I think that much of this debate comes from a confusion about
the meaning of the term free. When we talk about Eprints software
being free, the term free should take the meaning as implied
by the GNU public license. In this particular meaning, one
should think of it as freedom, rather
For immediate release, July 1, 2002
INGENTA SIGNS STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON TO
CREATE OPEN ARCHIVE E-PRINT SERVICES
Ingenta plc, which empowers the exchange of scholarly and professional
research content online, has signed a strategic partnership with the
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Peter Suber wrote:
I'm puzzled by Ingenta and want to explain why...
Ingenta no doubt has its own agenda, but I think there is nothing at all
there for advocates of open access to worry about.
...Ingenta does not offer open-access. Publishers pay Ingenta to produce
My friend and ally Chris Green's alarm is understandable, in view of
several notable instances in which open-access has been betrayed by
erstwhile advocates' defecting to the toll-access camp!
But that hasn't happened here, with Eprints and Ingenta:
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Christopher D. Green
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