Re: Central versus institutional self-archiving

From: Lee Miller <lnm2_at_CORNELL.EDU>
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 09:44:07 -0500

At 14:03 Sat, 19 Mar 2005, Stevan wrote:


>In a comment added to Richard Poynder's new online column on OA
>
> http://poynder.blogspot.com/2005/03/time-to-walk-talk.html
>
>Bill Hubbard of SHERPA
>
> http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
>
>has corrected an important (though intentional!) omission from my
>own summary of the outcome of the Berlin 3 conference on implementing
>the Berlin Declaration:
>
> http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march05/harnad/03harnad.html
.........

> (b) It is institutions (not disciplines) that share with their own
> researchers a common interest in maximising the visibility, usage
> and impact of their own joint research output.

I strongly disagree. Disciplines do share with their own researchers a
common interest in maximising the visibility, usage
and impact of their research output. Progress in any discipline stands to
gain when research results are quickly shared with other researchers in
that discipline.

Lee Miller
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