On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Hamaker, Chuck wrote:
> I'd like to use this post as a handout on e-journals for a session of a
> statewide conference for faculty from the University of North Carolina
> systems. Will you grant that permission?
Chuck,
All materials on the American Scientist Open Access Forum (and in all
Open Access Eprint Archives) are Open Access. That means (quoting from
the BOAI definition of OA):
By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability
on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download,
copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these
articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software,
or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal,
or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining
access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction
and distribution [is] to give authors control over the integrity of
their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
In other words, thanks for asking permission, but you didn't really need
to ask!
Stevan Harnad
NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open
access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004)
is available at the American Scientist Open Access Forum:
To join the Forum:
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
Post discussion to:
american-scientist-open-access-forum_at_amsci.org
Hypermail Archive:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html
Unified Dual Open-Access-Provision Policy:
BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access
journal whenever one exists.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals
BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable
toll-access journal and also self-archive it.
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
Received on Mon Mar 08 2004 - 01:02:55 GMT