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On 2012-01-10, at 3:13 PM, Sandy Thatcher wrote:
But the NIH-type mandate doesn't get you very far, does it?
Just Green OA after 12 months.
That's right, it doesn't get you very far, and it's a bad model for others
to imitate (though it's
Perhaps those of us with contacts in other academic presses (particularly the
major ones such as Oxford, Cambridge, Chicago...) could press their contacts
to push for a disavowal from there, as well. They might also look at how such
AAP lobbying and press releases is working in so
One could reasonably conclude that nowadays, peer review is the only remaining
significant raison dâêtre of formal scientific publishing in journals (as
opposed to publishing on an OA platform such as ArXiv, where articles are not
routinely peer reviewed). Science collectively values peer
Stevan Harnad writes
Mike Eisen, in his splendid, timely op-ed article,
The article, at
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/opinion/research-bought-then-paid-for.html
contains the statement.
Libraries should cut off their supply of money by canceling subscriptions.
Do you agree with
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:50 AM, Jan Velterop velte...@gmail.com wrote:
nowadays, peer review is the only remaining significant raison dâêtre of
formal scientific publishing in journals...
This much is certainly true:
In the online era,of all the products and services bundled into the
I would not presume to talk about the value of peer review for all of science,
but for some fields it is absolutely essential. I am a archaeologist, and we
desperately need peer review to weed out papers by two groups of authors (many
of whom can write scholarly-sounding and scholarly-looking
I suspect that there are a number of members of the AAP that would prefer to
indicate their disapproval by simply not 'signing on' ... I think it is safe to
assume that silence is disapproval.
Dana L. Roth
Millikan Library / Caltech 1-32
1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125
626-395-6423
For immediate release
January 12, 2011
For more information, contact:
Jennifer McLennan
jennifer [at] arl [dot] org
(202) 296-2296 ext. 121
John Wilbanks to keynote SPARC Open Access Meeting
March meeting will explore intersection of âopenâ movements.
Washington, DC â SPARC has announced
Begin forwarded message [posted with permission]:
On 2012-01-10, at 3:13 PM, Sandy Thatcher wrote:
But the NIH-type mandate doesn't get you very far, does it?
Just Green OA after 12 months.
That's right, it doesn't get you very far, and it's a bad model for others
to imitate (though it's
http://bit.ly/yVRnu9
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