On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Allen Kleiman wrote:
> Apple computer has launched its iTunes product which, in my opinion, will
> eliminate the cd industry and all who depend on it for a profitable
> business. Furthermore, they have an audio books component that could do the
> same thing to booksellers. This Steve Jobs is some kind of genius and this
> issue has implications for open access.
[Note: The following reply by me was based on a misunderstanding on
my part, as I did not yet know what iTunes was. I incorrectly assumed
it was something like napster. In reality, it is merely a variant of
pay-per-view -- one of the three forms of toll-barriers to access:
subscriptions, site-licenses, and pay-per-view. I have accordingly
redirected further postings on this topic from the "Napster" thread to
"For Whom the Gate Tolls?" Apologies, SH]
In brief:
Consumer-theft technology has no connection with or implications
for open access to the refereed research literature, which is an
author give-away. It would be better for both causes to keep them
as separate as possible.
Please see the American Scientist Forum threads on this topic:
"What About the Author Self-Archiving of Books?"
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0450.html
"Legal ways around copyright for one's own giveaway texts"
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0541.html
"Napster: stealing another's vs. giving away one's own"
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0671.html
"PostGutenberg Copyrights and Wrongs for Give-Away Research"
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1309.html
"On not conflating the give-away and non-give-away literature"
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2003.html
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm#9.1
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#24.Napster
Harnad, S., Varian, H. & Parks, R. (2000) Academic publishing in the
online era: What Will Be For-Fee And What Will Be For-Free? Culture
Machine 2
http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/Cmach/Backissues/j002/Articles/art_harn.htm
Stevan Harnad
NOTE: Complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open
access to the peer-reviewed research literature online is available at
the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01 & 02 & 03):
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html
Posted discussion to: american-scientist-open-access-forum_at_amsci.org
Dual Open-Access Strategy:
BOAI-2: Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal
whenever one exists.
BOAI-1: Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access
journal and also self-archive it.
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
Received on Tue Oct 28 2003 - 12:30:36 GMT